Lack of staffing led to why Sycamore ladder truck didn’t respond to Tom & Jerry’s fire

Lack of staffing led to why Sycamore ladder truck didn’t respond to Tom & Jerry’s fire

“I’ve talked for the last three years about how we’re on the knife’s edge of being out of people,” Sycamore Fire Chief Bart Gilmore said. “Saturday morning, we ran out of people. I had nobody come back on department recall; we were utterly reliant on other cities.”