We Can’t Even Get The Basics Right: Fire Departments Facing Five-Year Long Wait For New Trucks

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This is one of those local stories that doesn’t get a ton of traction in the national headlines, but highlights quite possibly one of the most alarming trends in modern America: the failure to get the basics right.

And by basics, in this case, I mean the ability for a town or city to put out fires.

Fire departments around the Denver, Colorado, metro area have been struggling to afford new fire engines, which have ballooned in costs over the years, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic/economic catastrophe of 2020 and Wall Street’s private equity companies. They also have to navigate absurd wait times for trucks to be manufactured and outfitted — wait times that can last as long as five years. So, for smaller fire departments without a ton of financial resources and manpower, this puts them in a perilous situation. (RELATED: Crucial Backbone Of America Slowly Crumbling Under The Weight Of Wall Street)

What if there’s a massive wildfire, commonplace in a state like Colorado, and the local fire department doesn’t have all the........

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