{"id":301819,"date":"2017-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/letter-do-we-really-need-palatial-fire-stations-2\/"},"modified":"2017-06-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T07:00:00","slug":"letter-do-we-really-need-palatial-fire-stations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/letter-do-we-really-need-palatial-fire-stations-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Carta: \u00bfRealmente necesitamos estaciones de bomberos palaciegas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor:<br \/>\nThe original Point Loma Fire Station 22 was built in 1942 at a cost of $7,800, which is $121,494 in 2017 dollars.<br \/>\nI am sure it needed to be replaced, but what are we getting for $6 million? Do we really need palatial fire stations? The average fire station responds to one actual\u00a0structure\u00a0fire per year. Our police respond to emergency calls 24\/7 as does the fire department yet they do not live at the police station. Why do the firefighters? In 2016, a full\u00a080 percent of Station 22\u2019s calls were for medical &#8220;emergencies&#8221; (only 11 percent were urgent). A fully staffed fire\u00a0apparatus and an EMT vehicle respond to almost all calls. Why? Smaller two-person fast response teams make all the sense in the world. Perhaps it is time to bring the SDFD into the 21st century. Scott Mac Laggan<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor: The original Point Loma Fire Station 22 was built in 1942 at a cost of $7,800, which is $121,494 in 2017 dollars. I am sure it needed to be replaced, but what are we getting for $6 million? Do we really need palatial fire stations? The average fire station responds to one actual\u00a0structure\u00a0fire per [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11559","_seopress_titles_title":"Letter: Do we really need palatial fire stations?","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11559,12360,11551,11552],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach-bay-press","category-duplicate","category-news","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}