Mayor: City Lost Two DPW Trucks in Storm
McGlynn said he knows city "wasn't perfect" dealing with the storm but employees did a "very good job."
Medford Mayor Michael McGlynn said two city Department of Public Works trucks were victims of the major winter storm that blanketed two feet of snow on the city. McGlynn said during a Friday press conference he would request to include two new DPW trucks among the items to be funded by a possible $3.2 million interest-free loan from the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority discussed by the City Council this week. McGlynn said one of the trucks, a smaller plow, actually overheated and "burst into flames" due to the stress from pushing "heavy, wet snow." McGlynn said the truck was "a $50,000 item." The other truck that died during the storm was a sander, which was also valued at $50,000. McGlynn is proposing purchasing two larger trucks …
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Giovana
4:29 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013
Across ofvthe street from my house they left a pile of snow in front of a driveway where an elderly person lives and they cleaned all the snow to the ground at the corner of a house only feet away... I was wondering how do they chose who gets a pile of snow left and who gets everything removed? I have some pics... I always clean my sidewalk but so many of them are still not clean yet? That's why … more ›