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NEW YORK (AP) City firefighters accused the city of being misleading with its information on response times to emergencies during public hearings in June.
Firefighters unions said that among the most noticeable cases of misleading the public was with Brooklyn's Cobble Hill neighborhood, which was served by Engine Co. 204. Union officials claimed response time was actually minutes longer than the department had reported.
Union officials said the response time in the six neighborhoods served by the fire companies had increased. Four of the units were in Brooklyn, one was in Queens and another in Manhattan.
``They're mixing apples and oranges here,'' said Frank Gribbon, a fire department spokesman in Tuesday editions of Newsday. ``What we said was we expected average response times in the areas where the six companies were closed to go up by a minute. Those were projections based on computer modeling.''
But Stephen Cassidy, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association said the department was not truthful with the statistics it had given out during the hearings.
``Prior to the engine company closings, the FDNY seriously misled the City Council about response times in the six affected communities,'' Cassidy said in a statement. ``The increases soared in all six neighborhoods
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