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BALTIMORE — Should this city’s red fire trucks be transformed into rolling billboards?
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June 24, 2012

After Baltimore officials made the wrenching decision to close three fire companies later this summer, the City Council initially sought to avert the cuts with a new money-raising strategy: it passed a resolution this month urging the administration to explore selling ads on the city’s fire trucks.

It is far from clear whether corporate logos will be painted on Baltimore’s fire engines any time soon. Officials in Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s administration have expressed doubts about whether the proposal would generate enough money to keep even one fire company open. ...

Kickbacks here kickbacks here. Hurry and get your kickbacks before we run out!!

Fire insurance companies will love this. Next step, fire departments will only respond to residences insured with the company that paid for the advertising.

GOT to keep those retirement and health insurance benefits in tact at any cost. Just another way to rob the taxpayer (at least those who are customers of the advertisers).

They're getting quite creative. Kicking the can could go on, well, for a long time.