Fire Rescue looks ahead to potential growth impacts

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The budget formulation hearings are a time when commissioners and department heads get an opportunity to discuss imminent or potential issues specific to each operation. Case in point, the conversation that commissioners and Fire Rescue Chief Derrick Burrus had at a recent budget workshop, relative to the pressures being brought to bear on the fire protection and emergency medical services due to population growth. Commissioner J. T. Surles initiated the