follows a similar suit<\/a> brought against the same defendants by Los Angeles County in California in February.<\/p>\n\u201cLos Angeles County will not allow companies to exploit the fire truck market at taxpayers\u2019 expense,\u201d said Los Angeles County Board Chair and First District Supervisor Hilda L. Solis. \u201cThese companies have driven up prices, delayed deliveries to unprecedented lengths, and forced our communities to shoulder the cost. Fire trucks are essential to protecting public safety, and we are taking action to hold these companies accountable, recover overcharges, and ensure fair competition so taxpayers are never left paying more for the tools our first responders need.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe LA County Fire Department has experienced dramatic price increases and long delays in receiving delivery of fire trucks,\u201d said LA County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone. \u201cThese market conditions strain our budget and are a wasteful diversion of public funds needed to support our mission of protecting lives, environment and property.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the International Association of Fire Fighters<\/a>, the union representing most, if not all, professional firefighters in the U.S., Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into Rev Group, Oshkosh, and Rosenbauer, citing price fixing concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WHTM) \u2014 A Pennsylvania city is the latest to file suit against fire truck manufacturers over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,81429,81428,81430,13368,4173,81431,81427,28,81432,74813],"class_list":["post-182492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-american-industrial-partners","tag-antitrust-concerns","tag-apparatus-manufacturers","tag-fire-truck","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-manufacturers","tag-oshkosh-corporation","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pierce-manufacturing","tag-price-increases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}