Clark County Fire Department Out Of Control

As a former volunteer firefighter, it pains me to say this, but the Clark County Fire Department is out of control.
The CCFD primary mission is firefighting and ambulance service. The ambulance service responds to all 911ambulance calls along with a private ambulance. The private transports almost all of the 911 patients.
The fire suppression service consists of 42 stations with about 17 rural or non-Las Vegas Valley fire stations.
About 90% of the calls are for medical problems. In 2008, there were only 3515 fire incidents. http://fire.co.clark.nv.us/(S(2y1oeynkijmwfn45kswgrjbu))/Facts.aspx
This represents about 9 fire incidents a day and a fire incident may include a car fire or building fire or grass fire. 9 calls a day, divided by 29 paid fire stations is not a lot of fires. Then you add 3 shifts and you can see the average firefighter does not respond to very many fires a year. Hell, an average volunteer fire department in the Midwest responds to more fire calls than most firefighters do in Clark County and I am sure that is true throughout the country. When I was a volunteer fireman in Dunseith ND, I responded to more than 200 fires in 1 year, including up to 15 or more in 1 day during grass fire season.
Clearly, the average CCFD firefighter on an engine or truck is not overworked.
But yet, most firefighters make over $100,000 a year, with some battalion chiefs making over $300,000 or more. They use more sick leave than the average Clark County employee. There are charges that certain firefighters rig the system so they exchange sick days off and work the other person's days at time and a half. If true, these firefighters should be criminally charged for theft or misconduct in public office.
As far as ambulance calls, the paramedics are glorified first responders. With few exceptions, they do not transport the patient, instead leaving that for AMR and Medic West. I happened to witness a scene when a person was shot. The CCFD medic unit responded first and the medics wandered over to the car and did nothing until the Medic West ambulance arrived. The Medic West did a scoop and go. The man later died. The CCFD didn't do anything and Medic West did all the work.
So, what to do with fire department? It used to be, since 9-11 when 350+ firefighters died in the World Trade Center. firefighters were heroes but the firefighters, especially the unions took advantage of this. They got great pay packages and benefits. Great for them. But now, the economy sucks, especially in Clark County.
These are my suggestions. They need to cut down significantly on overtime. That's a no brainer. In education, they have substitute teachers and in the CCFD, there is no reason why they can't do the same. You can hire about 20 firefighters who are paid on call. If they work, they get paid and if they don't work, they don't get paid. They would be trained by CCFD and meet certain standards, like Firefighter 2 with additional training. They could also call on the volunteers who work in the rural stations. If a firefighter goes on vacation or calls in sick, a paid on call firefighter replaces them. Same with paramedics. There are many paramedics in the Valley who would be able and willing to fill in for CCFD paramedics if they call in. This eliminate time and a half for the full time firefighters.
If a Battalion Chief calls in, then they get a officer from field and replace the officer with a firefighter from the station and then the firefighter is replaced by a paid on call firefighter.
If implemented, this will reduce overtime significantly and reduce the costs of the CCFD.
Remember, the average CCFD firefighter doesn't respond to that many fires or car accidents or other non-medical emergencies. Most don't even respond to 1 or 2 non-medical calls a day. So, this plan could be easily be implemented.
But the CCFD is out of control now and it needs to face economic reality. They are not that busy to justify $100,000 a year salaries.