about 40 negotiation sessions with the union and they came to an agreement, we were told nine days ago that members had to decide they were going to end their career, get the shot, or go on unpaid leave. we have had members retire, as of this morning 1700 on leave without pay and a very hard time staffing the firehouse this morning, there are fire houses, fire companies that are closed, there are many companies that are writing without the full contract-mandated number of firefighters on each one. when you see a fire truck rolled down the street, every person on that rig has a unique responsibility. in order for the other members to be able to do their jobs. when you start removing people from that rig when we assemble for fire, a regular fire s four engines and three trucks, they are coming from wherever depending on who is in and out of service, now we are having a miss mosh of understaffed rigs