Despite official pleas, the historic New York Fire Patrol--an insurer-funded operation that responds to business blazes and works to save commercial property--seems slated to end operations Saturday at midnight.
Yesterday, the City Council Fire Committee passed a resolution urging that the 100-member Fire Patrol be extended and calling on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to intervene.
But Charles Tedesco, treasurer of IAFF Local I-26, representing patrol members, said this afternoon there had been no response and an appeal to New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to seek a stay had fallen on deaf ears.
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