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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At approximately 5:00 pm Wednesday May 13th, over a dozen L.A.
County Sheriff units stopped the suspect at the entrance to the parking lot of the 
