Only 35 firefighters on duty out of 142, among list of challenges
Disaster day reveals state of BCM’s collapsing fire services
On an extraordinary day of fires on August 3, Buffalo City Metro’s ailing fire department was so poorly equipped and understaffed that only 31 out of 70 blazes could be doused, leaving 39 unattended...
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