"The system is not configured to provide firehouses with the information that they get now," he said.
Built for a pre-motorized Fire Department, the firehouse had a large pulley system hung from the first floor ceiling to keep the triple harness ready for the team of horses when a call came.
Kevin Reddy, chief executive of Noodles & Company, a chain of fast food restaurants based in Broomfield, Colo.: "I would commend Firehouse for investing in their system long-term through a brand-building campaign focused on differentiation, not short-term discounting or reducing food quality.
The Navy built a $25,000 boathouse, spent $579,565 on a new crew barracks and built a firehouse, water-supply and lighting systems.
In firehouse culture, people who work the system to their advantage are all too familiar, just as any family knows who it is that never washes the dishes or carries out the trash.
First built in 1929, it's since expanded to a sprawling complex of 1,500 acres (three times the size of the East Village in Manhattan), complete with offices, a firehouse, a medical center, a rail system, and shipping docks.
Doyle, who started using a PC-based voice processing software program about a month ago, is so sold on the program he is using, and especially the productivity gains he has already seen, that he is about to install the same system on the other two PCs in the main firehouse.
Alleging that a firefighter is taking advantage of his colleagues in making the system work to his own benefit is a sore subject in any firehouse, and the firefighter said that Firefighter Walsh's references to this galled Firefighter Silvestri.
I think about all the ways our money could be better spent -- on affordable housing, firehouses, public schools, cleaner and safer streets, and the transit system, just to name a few.
Interstate Battery System of America, Dallas, whose member companies operate and franchise All Battery Center retail stores, named Firehouse, Dallas, as advertising agency of record.
"Our system works, so why fix it?" Mr. Roode first denied there was tension in the firehouse, then blamed it on union organizers.
