TACOMA, Wash. — Dozens of Tacoma firefighters showed up to a city council meeting on Tuesday night to call for more funding for the Tacoma Fire Department in the city’s upcoming budget.
“Right now we’re at this critical breaking point where something’s going to fail and it’s at what cost?” said Allyson Hinzman, Tacoma Firefighters Local 31 Union president. “We’re afraid that cost is going to be the citizens.”
The proposed fire department funding in the general fund is $13 million more than the last budget. But Hinzman said the city is asking more of the department, with higher call volume and new services, but not adding more resources…