Firefighters get state OK to drive trucks in parades
Memorial-Day-parade organizers can breathe a sigh of relief: Gov. David Paterson today signed a bill allowing people without commercial licenses to drive fire trucks under special circumstances – like parades.
People without commercial licenses have been banned from driving police and fire vehicles since a law was passed in 2005 to try to tighten up on who could operate large vehicles. Paterson said one of the “unforseen negative consequences’’ was that most volunteer irefighters were esclued from driving fire trucks for tasks like funerals, parades and hydrant inspections.
As the law’s provisions became more widely known this year, it threatened to disrupt Memorial day parades. The bill passed the Legislature earlier this week.
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Well, if irefighters are esclued, something has to be done, and fast.
Three paragraphs on who can drive a fire truck at parades and it’s off for the weekend. Could be that the only people who work less than reporters are legislators. You’d hardly know the State was going bankrupt. Pass the suntan lotion.