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Firefighter Belfiore Graduation
Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Firefighter Brian Belfiore who graduated from the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services Career Recruit Program #Class309 yesterday! Brian comes to us from the Georgetown Fire Department and the Georgetown Firefighters Local 5299. We’re happy to have him in #Haverhill and are sure he’ll do well here in #HaverhillFire
Haverhill Firefighters Vindicated through CPSM Study Results
March 10, 2023
Haverhill Firefighters and the CPSM Study Presentation to City Council – 3/7/2023
Since early 2019, the Haverhill Firefighters have been working with several city leaders to try and improve our working conditions, our safety, and the safety of the public. Many of our concerns were also echoed by Fire Chief O’Brien, the city council, and the public. In 2022, Mayor Fiorentini ordered a study be conducted of the fire department in an attempt to refute firefighter claims that the fire department was not being properly funded, equipped, and staffed. Tuesday night, CPSM presented their findings and here they are in line with what the Haverhill Firefighters Local 1011 have been saying about the Haverhill fire department; that the HFD… (see more)
Local 1011 President Tim Carroll Elected as PFFM District 4 Vice President
Haverhill Firefighters Local 1011 President Timothy Carroll Elected as Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts (PFFM) District 4 Vice President
Your Haverhill Firefighters & Local 1011 Executive Board would like to congratulate Haverhill Firefighters Local 1011 President Timothy Carroll for his election to the Professional Fire Firefighters of Massachusetts District 4 Vice President. We trust that he will put in the same effort towards this new role as he did as the long-time leader of our organization. Strong work Tim!
A statement from District 4 Vice President Tim Carroll:
“Today I am thrilled to have been sworn in as the Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts (PFFM) 4th District Vice President. I won a highly contested election, thank you to both Joe Brangwynne and Michael Delaney who ran against me. Both of them ran exceptional campaigns, I would like to thank the 4th District for showing up to vote today. I am going to work my ass off for all of you and I will make sure the 4th District’s issues are heard loud and clear. Thank you for your continued support.”
– Timothy Carroll (2/17/2023)
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Haverhill Mayor Denies Access to Fire Department Study Process
The actions of a failed mayoral administration, afraid to work on an even playing field.
CPSM Haverhill Fire Department Study,
Delayed Final Report Release & Initial Response
The actions of a failed mayoral administration, afraid to work on an even playing field.
Mayor Fiorentini not only lied to the city council and firefighters but to the citizens he works for. The mayor told the firefighters and the city council that we would be included in the Haverhill Fire Department study and review process. The mayor and his office hid the existence of every draft report he received from the rest of the city leadership, the citizens of Haverhill, and the firefighters this study impacts. The mayor received these initial documents at least 2 months ago, the city council only received a report as of yesterday, the firefighters have still not been given a report by the mayor.
The final draft date on this fire department study was 11 December 2022, we are still working out the details on when the earlier initial draft was received and still hidden by the mayor. Nonetheless, the firefighters got their first look at the study results today, 2/7/2023 more than 8 weeks later. This was done deliberately by Fiorentini.
The firefighters requested the draft study results from the mayor as soon as we knew we it was available early last week and the mayor refused to give Local 1011 Firefighters President Tim Carroll any version, despite past promises. Instead, Mayor Fiorentini gave the study and “summary” rhetoric to Mike LaBella to print, unchallenged. The mayor refusing to send the study of our fire department to the firefighters or city council prior to getting his version to the paper tells you everything you need to know about this administration. The mayor giving the Haverhill Fire Department study with his skewed “summary” rhetoric to Mike LaBella and The Eagle-Tribune printing anything prior talking to the firefighters tells you what you need to know about their publication. Unfortunately, it seems that the Tribune continues to facilitate and enable these unethical actions by a contentious mayor by not pursuing actual journalism. By not reaching out to the city council, or the firefighters about their thoughts on the study while at the same time only caring to receive and print the opinion of a person who has spent their career eroding the fire department forces us to call the paper’s motives into question.
This is a mayor who is afraid of dealing honestly, if this study was his honest pursuit of knowledge regarding Haverhill and our fire department, the firefighters and the city council would have and should have been involved in the process, they were not. Fiorentini purposefully cut everyone else out. The mayor delaying a much-needed staffing increase and calling for a study last year was designed from day 1 to undermine the firefighters and our safety concerns. There is an obvious bias here and you need to know that. Once we’ve had a chance to review the study results ourselves, we’ll let you know.
Faithfully,
Your Haverhill Firefighters Local 1011
Please see the attached statement below (same as above)
Haverhill Firefighters on Social Media
2023
Please make sure you’re not only following us on our website but also on your favorite social media platforms for the latest and greatest from your Haverhill firefighters.
A list of our social media accounts. Often imitated, never duplicated.
Haverhill Firefighters Local 1011 New Union Officers
2023
Haverhill Firefighters Local 1011 elect new union officers and appoint new committee chairpersons
Effective 01/04/2023 and updated throughout the year
Please see the current list of union officers and chairpersons
Haverhill Firefighter Staffing Shortage
The current effort to increase Haverhill’s dangerously low firefighter staffing levels has been ongoing since 2019. Since that time, staffing levels have not increased at all. In fact, the proposed 2023 City of Haverhill budget reduces the number of guaranteed on-duty firefighters by removing them from the 911 Call center and not increasing the per-firetruck staffing (better known as “minimum manning” or per-piece staffing). The current daily compliment of on-duty firefighters is a minimum of 21, though Mayor James Fiorentini’s proposal reduces that number to 20. Under the mayor’s proposed 2023 budget, Haverhill will lose 4 firefighter positions per week unless the Haverhill City Council stands for a TRUE STAFFING increase.