ATLANTA - Atlanta’s City Council will take up new legislation Monday that could put more firefighters on engines and ladder trucks across the city.

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Councilmember Michael Julian Bond introduced the proposal this week, calling for four firefighters to be assigned to every truck and engine. That matches the national standard set by the International Association of Firefighters, though many Atlanta units currently run with only three.

"We want four firefighters on the truck so when the truck does arrive they can split into two teams," said Nate Bailey, president of the Atlanta Professional Firefighters Union. "They can do a search twice as fast or they can do totally separate tasks, which makes us more efficient. It makes us faster on the fire ground and it protects firefigh

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