The K-9 was recently credited for his role in a nine-hour standoff in October, where he ultimately sniffed out a wanted man holed up in the third-floor closet of a home in West Bethlehem.
The new language defines these "mills" as, "large-scale commercial breeding facilities where the health and welfare of the animals are not adequately provided for ... "
“We used to be able to get turnout gear in what, eight weeks? Now it’s taking eight months,” Fire Capt. Scott Krycia said. “It’s just across the board with everything that we use for firefighting now.”
“I know a lot of people are dealing with inflation still, yet forever, it seems like,” Lower Saucon councilwoman Sandra Yerger said. “It seems like it might help them out a little bit.”
Bethlehem Police Chief Michelle Kott said these types of incentives will help to attract “the best and brightest” candidates to serve the city.