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Oakland's $129.8 million budget deficit could eradicate up to 30% of its firefighting capacity, depleting a strapped department already stretched thin by station closures, according to sources on the ground.
Fire response times in the Democrat-controlled California city are already three times the national average after budget cuts that recently closed two fire stations and kept a newly renovated station from reopening.
City Councilmember Zac Unger, who was an Oakland firefighter for 27 years, told Fox Digital that four more stations could face...
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