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在他们的左袖上，特伦顿消防队员长期磨损了一个制服的补丁，他们说与其他部门不同于它描绘的铁消防员，尊重他们在该市的职业超过100年的雕像。
抓着一个被救出的孩子的铁消防员是该部门，大流行，举行的年度仪式。更重要的是，列出了在职责中死亡的消防员名称的地方。
成员们说，铁消防员是特伦顿的巨大部分消防。188金博网网址多少
That’s why the decision by the department’s new civilian director, Kenneth Douglas, to change the patch’s design – and lose the Iron Fireman – has been met with anger and an online petition to keep the old design.
Firefighters say they were not part of the decision, and should have been, and the new design, which newly sworn firefighters started wearing Thursday, tosses away countless years of tradition. The new patch can be seen here, on the MidJersey.News website.
Douglas said Friday the design change was not meant to disregard history, but is part of larger, marketing and design changes that also include uniforms, “to push the department forward.”
“我完全尊重那个补丁，”道格拉斯说了铁消防员设计。“我们没有带走该部门的历史。”
The director said others in the department were aware of the new design, including union members, and he makes decisions with inclusion. Veteran firefighters can still wear the Iron Fireman patch, but he said the new patch will be on new uniforms in the future.
该部门的两个联盟总统，韦恩Wolk和Andres Perez，Douglas的舆论认为，工会是决定的一部分。他们说，与少数工会消防队员不同于清算它 - 他们说。
此外，联盟认为道格拉斯只是不知道铁消防员的重要性。如果道格拉斯想要更新补丁，那么它必须具有铁消防员符号，他们和其他消防员说。
“我认为它是匆忙而没有完整的会员投入，”Wolk说。“那个补丁对很多消防员意味着很多。”
Douglas, who previously served in the Newark and Orange departments, was named director in August.
“A lot of our members are very upset,” Perez said. He said he’s only talked with two or three firefighters who like the new patch. The department has 240 members.
佩雷斯和其他消防员说,新的补丁design looks like, “every other department.”
“We’re not New York, we’re not Newark and we’re not Orange,” Perez said. “We’re Trenton.”
Wolk和Perez和Douglas都说他们宁愿在谈论修复旧的Firehouses，购买新装备和对拯救生命和财产至关重要的其他问题。
然而，联盟总统表示补丁变化是象征的：Douglas应该专注于与联盟的那些更大的问题，而不是在六个月服务的部门中改变补丁。
The patch’s seriousness to firefighters is reflected online, where many have stepped from behind their usual stance of not publicly discussing department matters, which they typically refer to union officials.
Firefighter Kevin Soto开始了Levent.Org，写作：“我们作为本处的成员了解我们在持续的夜晚，周末和假期与我们的家人一起持续的风险和牺牲。如果我们的补丁和制服有变化，它应该基于所有成员的大多数投票。“
周五，请愿书有超过1,000名签名。
Soto posted it on Facebook, changed his profile picture to the Iron Fireman patch, and added: “I know this may sound a little crazy because there is bigger issues that we should be arguing about but to us changing something so iconic and historic in this city is a big deal…we had members die wearing this patch so it’s a slap in the face to all of us, not only us but to our families especially families of those fallen members and those who retired with that patch on.”
在请愿书上，消防员克里斯莱德写道：“许多男人我永远无法填补的鞋子在这个补丁下生活和死亡，这是我作为一个孩子才能渴望穿同样的补丁并保持最高的梦想正如以前所做的那样，服务水平和保护。“
“看到部门的东西替换为如此通用的东西，将是令人沮丧的，”消防员Marissa Bergen写道。
新贴片还领导了Firefighter Natasha Rivera进行公开声明。她是Manuel“Manny”Rivera的女儿，在梯子救援期间在2009年在职责中死亡，其名称在铁消防员雕像一侧蚀刻。
The patch also symbolizes honor, like her father’s, Rivera said.
“I wear it every day with much pride and if it’s changed it wouldn’t feel as though I’m honoring him anymore,” she wrote.
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