Bellevue community still fighting to bring back volunteer fire department

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The group continues to be combating to carry again Bellevue’s volunteer hearth division. 

There was one other tense assembly Tuesday in Bellevue a month after the borough council voted to decertify the Columbia Hose, Hook, and Ladder Firm.

“I ask you to actually rethink and perceive how vital the firefighters are on this group. Please, reverse your determination and reinstate our firefighters,” one resident mentioned. 

The council cited a report from research it had carried out that famous the corporate doesn’t have the staffing capability to offer ample companies. The borough has at the very least two paid firefighters and one engine to reply to emergencies. 

The Pittsburgh Bureau of Fireplace is now dealing with calls popping out of Bellevue.  

“This wasn’t a dictatorship,’” one other resident mentioned. “This can be a democracy, and so the place did the decorum go? The decorum the place you ask the residents?”

KDKA-TV tried to get solutions Tuesday as council members entered the manager session however nobody commented. Councilperson Sabreena Miller, who voted in opposition to the decertification, is talking out.  

“I am hoping that council might be agreeable to additional discussions on this,” Miller mentioned. “We have listened to public remark.”

Miller expressed concern about Pittsburgh firefighters responding to calls.

“I did communicate to talk with some representatives from town of Pittsburgh,” Miller mentioned. “There isn’t a formal settlement in place, in order a resident I’m involved. However I am trying ahead to working with councilpersons to see what we give you.” 

Glenn Prichard, the previous hearth chief in Bellevue, pleaded with the board to reverse its determination. 

“There was alternative tonight for you guys to rescind this vote and to get the volunteers again within the fray proper now,” Prichard mentioned.

Prichard mentioned they will not cease placing stress on the council, whereas resident Paul Miller mentioned he’s going to rent a lawyer.