Supernaw wants Station 17 fire engine restored

4th District Candidate Daryl Supernaw says restoration of Fire Engine to 4th District Station 17 and public safety a priority

Neighborhood activist and Long Beach 4th District City Councilman candidate Daryl Supernaw in a recorded interview has stated that restoring the water carrying fire engine to 4th District Fire Station  17 will be a priority as the 4th District's next councilman.  Supernaw and his wife are lifelong 4th District residents. His father was a Long Beach Fireman and lived in the Stearns Park neighborhood.

Station 17's water carrying engine was cut as part of the public safety budget cuts. Station 17 had the closest water carrying engine to the Stearns Park neighborhoods, the Traffic Circle Center, most of Los Altos and most of  Recreation Park neighborhoods.

On January 31, 2014 a house directly across from Station 17 in the 2200 block of Argonne caught fire-but there was no water carrying fire engine at the station ( see links to story below).

On February 4, 2014 a Press Telegram interview with Long Beach Fire Chief  Mike DuRee that had eye raising quotes appeared on the Press Telegram's website briefly-but then a few hours later was changed ( see link below). In the original story stated about Chief Du Ree:

"DuRee said he recognizes the severity of the cuts made to his department and that those cuts could have consequences in a major incident. “We’ve been lucky so far,” he said."

"The Fire Department had its budget cut by more than $10 million from 2007 to 2012, and its firefighters reduced from 137 in 2010 to 110 this year."

Supernaw stated in an interview recorded by LBReport at a "meet the candidates" event at North Long Beach's historic Dairy and Creamery that restoring the engine to Station 17 and public safety in the 4th District would be priorities for him as a councilman  (see interview link below).

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Supernaw interview LINK

Stearns Park House Fire LINK

STATION 17 house fire story LINK

DuRee interview  LINK