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Milwaukee Fire Department personnel respond to an emergency situation on the city’s South Side. “Resources declined, but calls for help have not been declining,” Acting Chief Aaron Lipski told residents last month at a community meeting. Photo by Edgar Mendez/NNS.
During a virtual community meeting hosted by the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission late last month,
“We’re way, way extended beyond what our core missions are,” said Lipski, a fourth-generation firefighter who assumed the helm of the department in October when former chief