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The 5-to-4 vote was split with council members Rob Dorans, Lourdes Barroso de Padilla, Melissa Green, Otto Beatty III and Nancy Day-Achauer voting against the purchase. Council President Shannon Hardin voted for the purchase alongside council members Emmanuel Remy, Christopher Wyche and Nick Bankston.

The foam many Ohio fire departments use to put out flames is laced with cancer-causing PFAS chemicals. Now, a new alternative is on the market.

Ohio is struggling to recruit enough volunteer firefighters. It can delay emergency response times, especially in the state’s rural areas.

With more than two-thirds of Ohio jurisdictions’ fire departments reliant on volunteers, they say it's something unsustainable.

The firefighters' union and the city hired a fact finder last year to help find compromise on a pay raise. That fact finder recommended firefighters receive a 17.5% raise.

We’ll look at the importance of volunteer fire departments to communities.

We discuss the impact and changing role of volunteer fire departments in their communities.

We discuss the impact and changing role of volunteer fire departments in their communities.

The state of emergency declaration frees up the city to enact mandatory overtime and cancel vacation time for firefighters and EMTs.

Some Republican lawmakers are proposing a plan that would require cities to pay more to shore up the fund that pays for police and fire pensions. The lobby group representing cities said it could be a huge hit to them.