The Plymouth City Council is considering ways to increase public safety by potentially adding more career firefighters to the city’s current model.
City officials, including Public Safety Director Mike Goldstein and Fire Chief Rodger Coppa, met during a May 8 work session to discuss options to address identified staffing challenges within the city fire department.
“We have had a very good fire department for many years,” Coppa said, noting the paid on-call system has served the department well for many years. “As the community has continued to grow, our public safety needs have continued to evolve along with that.”
Currently, the fire department relies on 64 paid on-call firefighters and six full-time career firefighters to staff its three stations.