ROCKLAND — The television show “Rescue 911” will be requested to do a dramatization of the shooting of two police officers here Oct. 13, 1989.

City Manager Cathy Smith Sleeper wrote to the program after a resident made the request to the City Council.

In a letter to the show’s producer, John Taylor, Sleeper stated that Rockland was a small, coastal Maine community with 20 police officers, five dispatchers, and 15 full-time fire and emergency-medical service personnel that handle all “911” calls in the city.

“The shooting was a rare event in Maine, particularly in a small community. Both officers were critically shot; one police officer nearly died,” Sleeper wrote. “Thankfully, the story has a happy ending as both are now back to work (one part time) for the Rockland Police Department.”

Officers Stephen Johnson and Jeffrey McLaughlin were shot by Craig Davis, 26, of Rockland when answering a domestic complaint on State Street. Davis late last year was sentenced to a maximum 20 years in prison on two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm.

Sleeper informed the television show producer that “the story of the `911′ call, the outstanding response of emergency and hospital officials, the outpouring of community shock and then support, and finally the recovery of both officers, which was particularly long and arduous for Officer Johnson, the most critically wounded, is a story of intensity and has the upbeat tone admired by us in so many of your `Rescue 911′ episodes.”

Other city news included the scheduling of a grievance hearing at 7 p.m. Monday, April 16, before the City Council by the firefighters’ union.

The union, upset over a policy to allow for three-member firefighting crews, filed the grievance on the grounds of unsafe working conditions. Sleeper said that because both sides of the argument already had been aired publicly, she expected the grievance hearing at City Hall also would be public.

The city has received one application for fire chief, Sleeper reported. The applicant is not from the city. what do we mean

Acting Fire Chief Raymond Wooster, who had not yet filed an application, agreed with a procedure to seek outside applicants. He said he wanted the job, but did not want it by default, since no other members of the department were interested.

City ordinances require the city to offer promotions within the department before advertising for applicants. Wooster agreed not to apply until the position was advertised. The deadline for applications was April 20.

Also on Monday, the council will appoint members of a new Recycling Committee. Sleeper said the council would establish goals for the new committee that include drafting and recommending a mandatory recycling ordinance for the city.

Sleeper said the announced closing of O’Hara’s fish-processing operation also would affect the city treatment plant budget, as would the closing of National Sea Products at the end of April.

The two firms paid the city nearly $40,000 in 1989 in sewer fees to treat wastes from their plants.