Don't know who you are, but you are certainly getting the picture. I wish the rest of the taxpayers were. Approximately a month or so before the Deputy Chief was laid off it was decided that he would be the only one to take a staff vehicle home, due to the fact that he was in charge of operations. All other use was discontinued until right after the layoffs. You are correct actually, the District Chief and firefighters are all more than capable of responding to any emergency and they do an absolutely excellent job, all on their own, I might add. If it was an absolutely catastrophic emergency; i.e., mass casualty incident, they would need "all hands on deck", including the Fire Chief, the EMS/Operations Chief, and Assistant Chief. Fortunately, those incidents are extremely rare. Also, if you have a staff vehicle you are required to live within 20 miles of Station 3/HQ and everyone actually lives quite close to that station. There are other staff vehicles and I am not certain if those are still being taken home.