The defeat of a bill that would have cut cities a break in funding firefighters pensions has Charleston's mayor a little hot under the collar.

Now Danny Jones says he wants the city to rethink a mutual aid agreement between Charleston firefighters and unincorporated communities.

Those smaller neighborhoods are usually covered by all volunteer fire departments.

Jones told the Charleston Gazette he was upset about a memo from the state firemen's association bragging about the defeat of the bill.

The bill would have used a portion of insurance surtax funding to pay into the pension fund for city firefighters. But volunteer firefighters also rely a portion of the surtax money to fund their departments and opposed the way the bill would split the funds; two-thirds would go to the pension system and the remaining one-third to volunteer fire departments.

Volunteer firefighters say the mayors comments aren't helping efforts a compromise bill currently being worked on.