Another Liberal City Debacle

From the Detroit Free Press: Detroit firefighters will not be allowed on the hydraulic ladders on the department's fleet of aerial trucks unless there is an "immediate threat to life" because the trucks haven't undergone safety inspections for years.
Fire Commissioner Donald Austin said firefighters will not be allowed on the ladders during water tower operations until the needed inspections are done.
Austin said the impact on fighting fires will be minimal, but the head of the firefighters union disagreed.
"What this means is, it greatly complicates our work, and it really makes it difficult for any fire that's over a couple stories high," said Dan McNamara, president of the Detroit firefighters union. "It minimizes our ability to put the fire out and also minimizes us to be safe as we're doing ventilation and rescue operations."...
Austin said the aerial trucks should be tested or inspected annually and tested every five years for metal fatigue, cracks and stresses.
"We haven't done either," Austin said. "Now that I have knowledge, I'd be remiss if I didn't do something about it."
"We don't want any accidents," he said. "We don't want any fatalities."
There are times when firefighters would be allowed to use the hydraulic ladders, but Austin declined to discuss them with the Free Press.
In a statement provided by the city, Austin said, "no aerial ladders will have firefighters on them unless there is an immediate threat to life. If a ladder must be used, every effort will be made to properly support the ladder."  http://www.freep.com/article/20130204/NEWS01/302040035/Detroit-firefighters-ordered-off-ladders-on-aerial-trucks-fleet-hasn-t-been-inspected-in-years?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
An ladder truck is very important firefighting/rescue tool and for a large city to not do inspections on the ladder trucks is irresponsible.
And who runs Detroit?  Why, liberals, of course.
Maybe it's time for liberals to admit that they just cannot not run a government organization.  From Obama and Washington D.C., to Chicago, Detroit and most urban areas, liberals tend to run them and they also tend to be total failures.
It's time to admit that liberalism has no place in running anything, unless they choose to do that in the private sector, and many times they are a failure at that as well.