Miranda fire station closure anger | St George & Sutherland Shire Leader.

SUTHERLAND Shire’s only aerial firefighting truck, which can be used to rescue people from six-storey buildings, is unavailable an average of once a month because of cost cutting.

If such an emergency occurred in the shire on one of those days, a unit would have to come from Kogarah.

The truck is based at Miranda fire station, which Labor candidate in the Miranda by-election, Barry Collier, claimed had been closed 11 times since rolling station closures started last November.

Mr Collier said, in the same period, Sutherland fire station was closed 27 times.

Fire & Rescue NSW did not dispute the figures but denied public safety was being jeopardised.

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http://www.theleader.com.au/story/1830721/miranda-fire-station-closure-anger/?cs=12

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