As promised this week, the city of Springfield, IL laid off 17 firefighters and began rotating station brownouts this weekend due to their budgetary meltdown . This brings to over 100 municipal employees that have felt the ax this year. Here is a video from WICS ABC 20 about the lengthy response times feared by citizens in the area of the first fire station closed just yesterday (Sunday).
Oops.
Oh, boy. Ummm…
Talk about timing…
WICS ABC 20 put out another video- just hours after the first one:
When is election day for the city council?












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