SEMINOLE, Fla. — The flag flap between this city and its firefighters has ended and the American flag will now be properly displayed on fire vehicles.
The flags will likely be mounted on the trucks by the end of this week. Seminole City Manager Frank Edmunds said the city\’s maintenance department is making clamps so the flag can be fixed to the right front fender, as the U.S. Flag Code dictates.
\”We\’ve never taken the position that we do not want flags,\” Edmunds said Monday. But \”if we\’re going to (display them), we\’re going to do it right.\”
A dispute over the flag blew up over the weekend when about 20 protesters, all friends of firefighters, waved flags for about an hour on 113th Street, near one of the city\’s fire stations. They were protesting an order to remove the flag from Seminole fire trucks. It was a dispute, they said, that had been brewing for months.
But Edmunds said that\’s not true.
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