PROVIDENCE — Mammoth fire trucks parked outside the Rhode Island Convention Center and near a stage indoors made it easy to distinguish Tuesday’s downtown graduation ceremony for 73 newly trained firefighters.With the trucks’ lights blinking, the new firefighters walked off the stage to embark on new careers in the city’s fire service.Their graduation, the second in recent years, is expected to raise staffing to a level that will eliminate overtime [...]
73 New Providence Firefighters Join The Ranks
Mark Reynolds, The Providence Journal
Tue, 11/20/2018 - 8:43pm
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