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Ongoing contract negotiations and turnover at the Ocoee Fire Department have some worried that the city will be unable to keep quality firefighters.
Residents Chris Adkins and Brad Lomneck broached the subject during the Feb. 2 Ocoee City Commission meeting.
“We have to have a grave concern if we’re starting to have a lot of turnover especially in our first responders,” Adkins said during the meeting. “I know there has been some stuff online and so on and so forth in regards to salaries and this and that, but I’m not here about that. What I’m here about is my concern that we cannot retain quality firefighters in the city of Ocoee.