Plano firefighters are pushing for new layer plans: 48 hours, 96 hours of discount

Plano, Texas – – Plano Firefighters have started a campaign for a new schedule that is becoming increasingly popular across the country.

Apply for at least two members of the Plano city council that the matter will be placed on an agenda for a complete examination.

What we know:

The fire brigade, the medical director and the Firefighters Association, call on the city council to trace a schedule of 48 hours and 96 hours.

Plano firefighters are currently on duty for 24 hours with 48 hours.

It is the same time on the clock, but firefighters who did it say it is more life -changing.

In North Texas, 80% of the pre -city departments such as mesquite, Richardson and McKinney have reached the change to 48 hours from 96 hours, according to the Planefighters Association.

What you say:

The Plano Fire Lt. Chris Samons says that a new schedule could help him do his work even better.

“We wake up in every shift in the middle of the night and have to be ready to go immediately,” he said.

Samons says it doesn't feel like two days because the first day is spent to recover from lost sleep.

“I don't have a full weekend with my family,” he said. “On a 48-96 time plan, I would still have many weekends when I would have a full Friday, Saturday, Sunday.”

Plano firefighter Logan Perry said that he worked the 48-96 time plan in Palm Springs.

“I was much more busy out there and experienced many more structural fires and a wildland use,” he said in a video video of the Planefighters Association.

While his current station contains fewer calls, Perry says that the 24-48 time plan is more strenuous.

“I am much tired on this schedule,” he said.

Brad McCutcheon, President of the Plano Firefighters Association, says that the city council must give the schedule a more precise overview of a one -year pilot program.

“We know so much more about shift work and sleep and its effects on health and well -being of fire brigade parts in 2025 than 20 years ago,” he said. “We ask for the public and city council members to listen to what the fire chief has put together with the support of the two deputy fire chiefs, the medical director and the Plano Firefighter Association.”

The other side:

A city spokesman said that the management had security concerns regarding the longer 48-hour layer.

“City management has serious concerns about the additional risk of potentially sleep -related civil servants who fight fires or offer advanced medical care, especially if there are several calls to interrupt sleep,” said the speaker.

According to McCutcheon, however, Plano firefighters are often already working 48-hour layers in extra time.

“I would trust one of my colleagues, my first aiders with my wife and my children if they have a 48-hour time plan,” he said.

McCutcheon says that overtime in the new schedule would fall in the middle of the four -day break that would enable the officials to calm down.

What's next:

Rick Horne and Shawn Williams from Plano City Council said that they demand that the city council will be informed about this at their meeting on March 24th.

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