Two Baltimore City fire stations are facing cuts to their trucks and staff due to the Mayor’s 2021 budget.
“Jack Young, if you’re watching and hearing this, keep this engine open,” a protestor said Wednesday.
A rallying cry could be heard to Mayor Jack Young at protests held at both stations Wednesday.
“Step up for firefighters and step up for our city,” said City Councilman Zeke Cohen (District 1).
Cohen and roughly seventy people at each location called on the Mayor to keep stations from losing their truck engines and the firefighters that work on them.
“When you close fire engines you endanger the lives of citizens,” one protestor said.
The Mayor’s new budget is making cuts to Pigtown and Northeast Baltimore’s stations.
“This fire engine will be gone,” said Dickie Altieri, president of Firefighter’s Local 737 Union.