Overtime spending in city agencies killed Baltimore’s $53.8 million budget ‘windfall’; city preparing for deficit
Excessive overtime spending in city agencies all but erased Baltimore’s fiscal year 2024 surplus, and now the city is ...
27 residents displaced after fire at Baltimore County apartment complex, officials say
A total of 27 residents, including adults and children, were displaced after a fire at an apartment complex in Windsor Mill, ...
Red Cross explains how it is helping Baltimore residents displaced by massive rowhome fire
The four-alarm fire took out a block of rowhomes, businesses, and apartments on North Fulton Avenue, leaving at least nine ...
‘When we fail, people die’: Some Baltimore leaders say understaffing, overtime needs to change
There’s an understaffing and overtime crisis in Baltimore. City Council members say that while some improvements have been ...
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Paramedic was Baltimore's Highest Paid Employee Last Year
Baltimore city’s highest-paid employee in the last fiscal year was a Baltimore City Fire Department paramedic, who earned ...
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Baltimore’s EMS staffing problems highlighted after notice of highest-earning paramedic
A Baltimore City Fire Department paramedic earned $358,586 last year—mostly from overtime—underscoring severe understaffing ...
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Overtime Spending Wipes Out Baltimore’s Budget Surplus
The city had to reshuffle more than $50 million to address the unexpected shortfall, driven by overtime costs due to staffing ...
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Officials: Illegal occupant activity suspected in West Baltimore rowhomes fire
The Baltimore City Fire Department reports that the fire is happening at the 2200 block of N Fulton Ave. UPDATE: The Baltimore City Fire Department said early indications of its investigation into ...
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Baltimore City's 2024 surplus erased, can it fill vacancies to reverse the trend?
BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Excessive overtime spending in Baltimore city agencies have all but erased ... Irani says vacancies in agencies like the fire and police department play a major part in ...
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Overtime spending in city agencies killed Baltimore’s $53.8 million budget ‘windfall’; city preparing for deficit
Nearly half of the total came from the Baltimore City Fire Department (BCFD), which received $33.36 million to fund “overtime due to sworn vacancies and unbudgeted EMS contractual services” du ...
40 dead as storms head east; fire risk remains in parts of U.S.
At least 37 people have died across seven states as powerful storm systems swept through the Midwest and the South.