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Article: Adjoining cities draw lines on fighting fires: South Charleston cancels aid to Corridor G, Southridge areas
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- February 18, 2002
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DAILY MAIL STAFF
The first steps in automatic fire aid cooperation between South
Charleston and Charleston have so far caused anger, frustration,
confusion, disappointment and doubt.
But that doesn't mean officials from both cities are ready to call
it quits just yet.
South Charleston City Council recently canceled parts of an
automatic aid agreement, which would have instantly dispatched both
Charleston and South Charleston fire crews to residential
neighborhoods around Corridor G and businesses in the Southridge
area.
Under the altered agreement, both departments now automatically
respond to fires at businesses in the Southridge Centre, Dudley Farms
and Trace Fork areas, but not to fires ...