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Flint City Council holds emergency meetingUpdated at 05:31 PM todayRelated VideoAll Live Video : All Video » Flint City Council holds emergency meeting
Lori Dougovito
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FLINT (WJRT) -- (03/31/10)--An open discussion behind closed doors. That's how the Flint City Council's president described an emergency meeting held Wednesday in council chambers.
The topic? Public safety in the city in light of recent police and fire layoffs, as 46 police officers and 23 firefighters were pink slipped last week.
Since then, there has been a number of fires. Investigators believe a portion of them -- in vacant homes -- were intentionally set.
Some -- particularly those Thursday night into Friday -- may have even been "politically" motivated or in retaliation to those layoffs. That's what city officials were saying last week.
Wednesday morning there were two more fires -- both vacant homes but one on Court Street posed a threat to the family living in the home next door.
Flint police were able to get the them out safely and firefighters quickly went to work despite not having enough people to work it, according to the battalion chief.
A number of Flint residents were at City Hall Wednesday protesting police and fire cuts.
Flint Police Officers Association President Keith Speer has been very vocal leading up to and following the layoffs.
He says he's feeling the effects of that.
Speer says he was questioned Tuesday by Police Chief Alvern Lock about Facebook postings he's made on his personal page mentioning Mayor Dayne Walling.
Walling declined to comment, saying he does not comment on personnel issues.
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