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TO OUR FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS:
Thank you for taking the time to visit the public section of our web site. Your Palm Bay firefighters need your help. Contract negotiations between your firefighters and the City of Palm Bay have turned more than sour and have reached an impasse. The city is looking to gut the very core of your firefighters benefit package and retirement plan. In an effort to work with our city, your Firefighters offered a wage and longevity freeze, offered benefit concessions and made significant strides to reduce the amount of overtime in the Fire-Rescue Department. This, on top of concessions your firefighters made in the areas of Health Insurance, Furlough Time, and Overtime calculations over the past two years that your firefighters did not have to make. Your Palm Bay firefighters waived a Florida Statute that would have otherwise required our city to pay wage increases effective October 1, 2009, a tremendous savings to the city in and of itself. Your Palm Bay Firefighters are reasonable people being treated unreasonably and unfairly by our city leaders. Some of these leaders are placing your Palm Bay firefighters in a poor light within our community by spreading false accusations and half truths; all designed to degrade and break down your Palm Bay firefighters. At some point in this impasse process at a public hearing, your city leaders will resolve the impasse with your firefighters. Some of your city leaders have stated they simply can not wait for this to occur, almost like our future is a game to them. Morale inside our fire stations is poor to say the least, and some of your experienced firefighters are looking to leave. Loosing experience is detrimental to a department that provides emergency service to the public however, fear not as your firefighters remain dedicated to the job we are sworn to do, and that is to protect and serve and to respond and mitigate emergencies of all kinds, not just fires and we will perform the best we can with what we have despite this terrible attack on us. We ask that you please contact our business office at 321-723-3036 to get the facts and to see how you can offer your help and assistance.
Thank you for your friendship and support.
Palm Bay Fire-Rescue Responded to over 10,200 Emergency Calls during 2009
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AS OF MARCH 12, 2010 THE PALM BAY FIRE-RESCUE DEPARTMENT HAS RESPONDED TO OVER 2,150 EMERGENCY CALLS FOR AN AVERAGE OF 31 EMERGENCY CALLS PER DAY; AND AT THIS RATE THE FIRE-RESCUE DEPARTMENT WILL RESPOND TO OVER 11,300 EMERGENCY CALLS FOR 2010
TO OUR CITIZENS: PALM BAY IS CURRENTLY SEEING A RASH OF BRUSH FIRES THROUGH OUT THE CITY; DESPITE THE RECENT POLITICAL ISSUES BETWEEN YOUR FIREFIGHTERS AND THE CITY OF PALM BAY LEADERSHIP, YOUR FIREFIGHTERS ARE FIGHTING THESE FIRES TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITIES; WE ASK THAT YOU HEED THE ADVICE GIVEN IN THE MEDIA BY CLEARING YOUR OVERGROWTH, KEEPING YOUR ROOFS AND GUTTERS FREE OF PINE NEEDLES AND TO BE ATTENTIVE TO ANY SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS, REPORTING SUCH ACTIVITIES TO THE PALM BAY POLICE
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN MAKING A RUN FOR PALM BAY CITY COUNCIL IN NOVEMBER 2010? IF SO, THEN THE PALM BAY PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS WANT TO TALK TO YOU. WHY NOT CONTACT US AND LETS MEET AND TALK. PLEASE CALL OUR OFFICE AND SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT.
Our organization represents the Firefighters within the Palm Bay Fire Department. We represent the firefighters in labor matters with the City of Palm Bay. Our views and opinions are not necessarily those of the Palm Bay Fire Department or of the City of Palm Bay. While we represent the members in labor matters, we also are very involved in public activities. We sponsor a wide variety of youth sports activities and other scholastic functions within Palm Bay's city limits; we support the South Brevard Sharing Center with clothing and food drives at various times of the year; we hold an annual Boot Drive for Jerry's Kids and the Muscular Dystrophy Association; and we make a variety of donations throughout the year to local, state and national charities and fund raising events. We appreciate the support our organization receives from the public. We are your Palm Bay Firefighters. Please contact us with questions related to our organization.
Check out these links from WFTV-Orlando; Coverage of a few of our recent calls:
http://www.wftv.com/news/22525049/detail.html
http://www.wftv.com/news/22536425/detail.html
http://www.wftv.com/news/22140925/detail.html
And from Florida Today:
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100216/BREAKINGNEWS/100216014/1086/Palm+Bay+crews+snuff+new+fire
TO OUR MEMBERSHIP:
Welcome to our new web site. Many of the functions are currently under construction at this time and will come up shortly. Registration is not necessary for our members to access the member portion of the site. Members user name is their name on their IAFF card with an underscore between their first and last name (John_Smith). The password is your IAFF member number. Once logged in, members can change their password.
Retired members will have to register. Please use the same format for your user name (John_Smith). For any registration issues or problems contact Mike Shervington (vprankandfileunit@iaff2446.com).
We hope you enjoy the site, we feel we have given you an improved product, one that is designed to keep you up to date and informed as much as possible with not only what affects Local 2446 but you will have the opportunity to keep informed in other fire related areas as well. Comments are welcome, and as we all know when Firefighters are asked for comments, they give them. So keep them coming.
