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Posted on May 16 at 8:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Let me see, Fairbanks is the second largest transshipment point in Alaska. More hazardous materials move through Fairbanks than most people know. Flow Line supplies insulated pipe to the north slope at a rate that’s hard to believe. Every thing from TP to drag reducing agent is here for all points north. I will agree we have no paper plants or plastics industry but shipping, construction, aviation, military, waste management are all thriving. Most all contaminated soils are shipped here for remediation at OIT. Tourism is a industry all of its own. Look around Fairbanks is on fire with industry. It may not be what you consider industry but it is all the same.

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Posted on May 15 at 9:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Some of us better than others. My job is to be there when needed I can’t do that out of shape. Time was if you were on overtime you had to buy the shift donuts...then we got "health aware” and bought bagels…then we looked a the fat and such in those. We went back to donuts. Then compared to ice cream, it’s the least of the three. Come on “moose tracks”.

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Posted on May 15 at 7:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I have thought about navy blue powdered sugar....LOL that way it will not show. I workout during lunch time....the donuts haven't got me yet.

On City Council reviews possible three-year contract with firefighters

Posted on May 15 at 5:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Fairbanks is not a small non-industrial town much less very small.

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Posted on May 15 at 5:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I think I'm encountering smoke right now BigMike….its blowing up my backside. Everyone tried to educate you, give you resources you called them propaganda. Your like one of those dolls pull the string and out comes the same nonsense. Here I go again trying to educate you. Firefighters are in a special class of health care that is significantly more expensive than Joe Blow. Why you ask? Because we are exposed to smoke almost on a daily basis. Every burned food on the stove, all those car fires wildland fires, dryer fires…Our stats are for structure fires. Did you know that smoke is an immune suppressant? We get oddball cancers no one else gets that’s what the presumptive health bill is all about. Also on health care, people do not call for an ambulance if they feel well. I have had to scrub off lice, exposed to meningitis, TB, flesh eating bacteria, influenza…And that was just in the last year. Our insurance plan is through PSEA the Public Safety Employees Association. http://www.psea.net/hwtrust/index.shtml Our current deductible is 500 a person 1000 per family. There are office visit deductibles as well as other fees to limit use. The city has no health plan they pay lump sums to different providers. PSEA was the only health plan that would even take us on when the city stopped providing a plan. Big Mike you are truly the most misinformed person on the fire service I have had a discourse with So you just keep banging on about issues you have no knowledge of, here let me pull your string.

On City Council reviews possible three-year contract with firefighters

Posted on May 14 at 9:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)

You hit the nail on the head. So much of the issues surrounding the fire service in Fairbanks and the borough are from misinformation. Preconceived notions as to how things work and what the inherent problems are. If anyone reads these rants, diatribes, and odes to beat on the working man and is educated or informed it was worth my time. My wife doesn’t think so…. The dishes and laundry didn’t get done until I fled the field. I just wish people would look to the future and see what I see, a safer more prosperous City of Fairbanks. The city has so much to offer if it could just wear its ship of state out of the irons. To long people have cried smaller, cheaper, sell it, what about build it, develop it, provide it. For fifteen years I have watched the City of Fairbanks languish. When was the last time you saw the city expand its services to unincorporated areas? Or expand its services period? Sorry different rant…

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Posted on May 14 at 11:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Battalion is on the same shift 24, 48 he stays at the station with us. Better continutiy that way, but otherwise you are correct they are in overall command of the shift.

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Posted on May 14 at 11:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)

BillyG, Hello Fairview Manor, Southhall Manor, MLH, Golden Ages, Litter Dipper Apt's, Anderson Apt's, all the hotels the most dense population in the FNSB. Multiple buildings over 4 stories. Oh by the way big buildings are better for fighting fire in. They are engineered for it.

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Posted on May 14 at 11:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Would you all please go to the City web site and look at the budgets. http://www.ci.fairbanks.ak.us/ also overtime saves money....what you say? If they hired more people they could all but eliminate overtime. They would rather bash on people who work harder I guess.

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Posted on May 14 at 11:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)

The TV was donated by a patient who bought a new one and wanted the old one to go to a good home. The old TV that was there was bought by the union from soda pop sales. The station was built with grant money and we had almost no input on it. You will see us active in the community period its our job. I think you shot yourself in the foot about Gaffney road and opened a wound. It was a tragedy, and we had three other calls at the same time. We didn’t have enough people we just ran out. Its regrettable its damming its frustrating yet we still have the same staffing. Volunteers would not have helped even mutual aid was 5 minutes away. What would have happened if we had just three more people per shift? Could we have effected a rescue? The questions haunt us and push us to fight for more people. We serve you that’s it, the union serves you by fighting for better staffing, better training, better equipment and better conditions for firefighters. Read the contract, if you have questions call us up we can clarify or call your Mayor.

On City Council reviews possible three-year contract with firefighters