If Port Chester has 300 Volunteer Firefighters as they claim, why did they think that needed to be supplemented with 8 paid staff in the first place? It couldn't possibly be a little fudging by the politicians could it? Nah, they wouldn't do that, that's lying, it would be dishonest. Illegal too.

Maybe I'm overly cynical, but would that be 300 volunteers the day of the annual dinner dance in August, or 300 volunteers at 0300 in a blizzard-caused power outage?

One million dollars for one firefighter on a 12-hour shift? Assuming every night, that would be 4380 hours per year, Dividing that into a mill, it works out to $ 228 and change per hour. Now, I *KNOW* firefighters are overpaid (coughcoughbullshit), but that still seems steep, even for Port Chester and Rye Brook.

The contract was not just for the one firefighter, it was also for a command structure as RBFD has no officers and automatic response from the volunteers from PCFD on all calls.

That makes a little more sense. Thank you for clarifying.

From the mayor of Rye Brook:

"Earlier today the NYS Supreme Court issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) requiring the Village of Port Chester to restore the staffing of the Rye Brook firehouse with a career (i.e. paid) firefighter starting Friday evening, May 13. Next Friday (May 20) the court will be considering the Village of Rye Brook’s application for a Preliminary Injunction. Rye Brook has received a request from the Village of Port Chester Mayor to meet, and based on the issuance of the TRO we intend to honor that request.

We thank the Rye Brook firefighters and the Port Chester volunteers for their hard word during this difficult situation and we look forward to sitting down with Port Chester to work collaboratively on this issue. "