When the city removed the firefighter pension incentive, 34 firefighters left the department and only 100 of them remained to protect our 87,000 residents.
In any other American city this size, losing 25% of a fire department would be a major scandal.
But here in Troy… It went unreported. Unexplained. Unaddressed.
And the quiet part? We continue to lose our most experienced firefighters, milestone after milestone, with no plan to keep them.
City Council has not made a meaningful change to the plan since they put it in place 2.5 years ago.
Firefighters don’t just need thank-yous. They need support, stability, and respect.
Let’s rebuild this department before response times become tragedies. This is about public safety, not politics.