Fire fighting and ground and street maintenance should be combined in municipalities.  Every municipal employee should be trained and qualified in firefighting with only a skeleton staff of full time firefighters maintained.  If a fire occurs then the full time firefighters would respond first with municipal employees then responding as needed.  Every municipal vehicle could be outfitted with lights, sirens, and equipment to support the main firefighting effort.  There are no negative consequences if an employee has to stop cutting the grass in a park for a few hours to respond to a fire call.  Combination garbage/fire trucks would be pretty cool.