https://airportimprovement.com/article/marthas-vineyard-airport-replaces-fire-station-just-time
lets spot the logical fallacies
1. exactly what is the differences between the airport fire station
and the oak bluffs fire station? the airport fire station needs a
little more foam
2, cant have year round fire crew - why not? only need 1 guy on duty
24/7 - backed up by ops guys - and thats probably what they do anyhow
- they probably have 2 or 3 ops guys on duty 24/7 - and 1 of them
hangs out in a fire bunk
3. why doesnt the airport pay for their own dam fire station? why does
someone in california have to pay for it?
4. damn - the closest volunteer fire station is 3 miles away - all of
those industrial buildings near the airport are essentially
unprotected - as are all of the airport buildings
5. if the airport ops guys can do fueling and plowing and crash - can
they also do police and EMS? that would make them SUPER PSOs!!!!!
6. TSA are usually unarmed - but Customs are armed - no idea who
provides security at this airport - maybe Sheriff - but they only have
2 people probably
7. bottom line - imho - there needs to be at least 1 structural / arff
/ EMT / firefighter here 24/7 - they need to be tasked with responding
to all fire and ems calls on and off the airport - there needs to be 1
fire rig set up for structural firefighting also - maybe there already
is - security probably needs to be done by at least 1 armed person
24/7 also - the plowing and fueling probably needs to be done by a 3rd
person - this is a grand total of 3 people that can be jointly funded
by airport + county + towns + TSA + Customs + FAA + airlines + etc
even better would be 3 armed people 24/7 who could handle all public
safety functions plus plowing plus fueling - in fact - would be
willing to bet that half of the ops staff is already firearm and EMS
trained
blah blah blah blah blah