“We do not have the luxury of time to recruit and train all new employees to fill vacancies,” she said during Council’s session Thursday. “We are facing a crisis now, and we must respond accordingly. This is just adding another tool in Philadelphia’s toolbox to ensure that we are making the public health and public safety of our city a No. 1 priority.
Mike Bresnan, president of the union that represents the city’s firefighters and paramedics, said bringing back retirees could help fill a “dire” shortage of paramedics, who have more training than emergency medical technicians.
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