This time from Muncie, Ind.:
A low-cost upgrade of computer equipment at fire stations will eliminate the costly expense of firefighters using fire trucks to deliver paperwork to the chief’s office. …The city administration estimates a $1,500 cost to taxpayers every time a fire trucks makes a run, based on the 6,066 runs made last year at a $9 million budget expense. …[new] equipment that would allow firefighters to transmit maintenance, training and other reports electronically to the chief’s office, now at City Hall, instead of having on-duty firefighters deliver paperwork by fire truck.
Fire Battalion Chief Gary Bowden said most fire department forms and reports were filled out by hand and stations did not have scanners that could be used to transmit the paper form electronically.
Until next time.
