VIDEO: When the city gave its employees a 2.5 percent raise this year, it included the fire department. However, Tucson Fire Fighters Association President Josh Campbell tells News 4 Tucson that's not enough. "It's very difficult to make a living here in Tucson when you're working in an environment as dangerous as we are and we're trying to raise families on a 2018 cost of living but we're trying to do that on 2008 wages," Campbell said. Veteran firefighters are taking home the same paychecks as rookies. "We have tenure firefighters and tenure captains making the same base rate of pay as a brand new firefighter or a newly hired captain today," Campbell, a 21-year veteran of TFD said. "So after working a 24-hour shift instead of going home to decompress, they're having to pick up overtime shifts.