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Fire and Emergency says some of its firefighters are afflicted by angst over union signs on fire trucks, feeling their image is being tarnished.
The signs - such as ones saying 'dire emergency' - have been emblazoned on trucks and fire stations for months.
National MPs questioned what FENZ was doing about the signs - and about damaging fires during strikes - at a parliamentary select committee on Wednesday.
The agency said it could not do anything about the signs, and the firefighters' union said nor should it.
The industrial dispute has gone on for over a year and a half, and the two sides remained far apart, according to both FENZ and the union on Thursday.
MPs had been quizzing the agency over its pla
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