High Priced firefightersd Complain About Staffing

From Firehouse.com: That's when the blame game began.
"We are telling you it is the reality. We have no money," Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua said. "The main reason why the Lawrence fire department was hit so far, is because it is the one that makes the most money in the state of Massachusetts."
Lantigua said if firefighters made concessions he might be able to rehire the 23 firefighters recently laid off. Firefighters were outraged.
Fire chiefs said they simply want to figure out a rotation schedule so the cost is evenly spread around, but firefighters put the blame squarely on the governor's shoulders.
"Can you please go back and tell the administration that we're in crisis in Lawrence? And surrounding communities and we need his help," said Robert McCarthy, of the Professional Firefighters of Massachusetts. "We need to do it before a firefighter gets killed or a citizen gets killed."
But Lantigua argued the state has helped enough and there is no crisis.
"I think we're safe. I think with the numbers of men and women we have from mutual aid we should have not problem," he said.
http://www.firehouse.com/topics/firefighter-safety/mass-dept-staffing-crisis-leads-blame
Substitute Lawrence with Clark County and the CCFD union and the Lawrence firefighters union and you basically have the same story.
Union blames management, management blames unions. Unions use scare tactics. Same old same old throughout the country.