The number of firefighters has reached a point where they can’t be on the fire engine and ambulance at the same time. That means when a fire engine is needed, an ambulance is not available, and when an ambulance is responding to an emergency, a fire engine can’t respond.
Your firefighters can’t be in two places at once, and unfortunately, this has already proved disastrous. At a recent fire, an Orinda home burned while the nearest engine sat without firefighters because they were on another emergency with the ambulance.