Minneapolis Fire Department

And that always amazed me.

I know one of them worked for the Minneapolis Fire Department.

One of them, he's a doctor in St. Louis.

Bean and Cynthia Johnson and Terry and others, David Island, they continued in music.

Like many alternatives to policing, the program suffers from council micromanagement, poorly defined measures of success, and questionable billing practices.

The council moved the program from the Neighborhood Safety Department to the Minneapolis Fire Department with little explanation and without giving MFD the guidance it needed to succeed.

A recent audit of the program found the following.

When oversight moved from the Neighborhood Safety Department to MFD on January 1, 2025, MFD inherited major gaps.

We're going local.

Uh, I, I talk to people from all around the country, all around the world, uh, but this time we get to, uh, uh, come right back local, uh, and introduce the new fire chief from Minneapolis Fire Department, uh, Dr. Reggie Freeman.

Uh, Chief, you know, I always say this when I talk to doctors that are also chiefs, I don't know, I don't know which one's, you know, more illustrious.

Is it fire chief or doctor? I think doctor probably takes a lot more work, uh, as you probably say.

And you know, such an honor to be on the show, man.

Thanks for having me.

Huge fan, and, and really appreciate the opportunity to, to give an introduction myself to your, to your viewers, but then also talk about the great things that the members of the Minneapolis Fire Department are doing on a daily basis.

So my father, he was in the Air Force.

And number three, a fire in the Seward neighborhood in Minneapolis ended with some daring rescues.

A state trooper called the Minneapolis Fire Department about a house fire around 1:00 AM.

Before they could get there, the trooper ran inside and helped two residents escape.

Crews arrived, and they found heavy smoke and a big fire at the back of the house.

these days seems a little different because the Minnesota drone law prevents certain things from being captured on drones, specifically residential areas and gathering information from those residential areas unless there is an anticipated event.

And in your reporting, it sounds like the anticipated event they initially used to try to start to capture information via drone was a handful of fires, and s- small manageable fires that don't seem to be substantial in the reckoning of the Minneapolis Fire Department or the Minneapolis Police Department.

And then ultimately some of that drone material was even l- stored for longer and protected, if I understand correctly, because of a single misdemeanor accusation of somebody wielding a piece of plywood.

So, uh, Bearcats aside, because they got the Bearcats, if they wanna drive them there, I don't think we can actually stop them.