Personally, I agree with TG on this one. I don’t have a problem paying police/fire more considering their lifestyle and risk they put in, especially police/fire that work in sketchy areas. Beats paying COBOL programmer consultants $100-$200/hr to fix an antiquated CA state payroll system that can’t be fixed, or hiring so many DMV workers and still having to wait in line 3-4 hrs. Also this the fire chief, it’s not a worker bee firefighter.