A Commenter Said.....
"FIRST OF ALL. WERE YOU THERE . IF SO YOU KNOW THE PATIENT THAT WAS POSSIBLY GOING TO BE FLOWN WAS HEAVILY TRAPPED. 32 MINUTES TO EXTRICATE THE PATIENT TO BE EXACT. IF YOU WOULD LOOK AT PICTURES OF SCENE AND THE VAN THE PATIENT WAS IN YOU WILL FIND OUT HOW MUCH WORK THE RESCUE CREWS HAD TO GET THE PATIENT OUT.THE 1 PATIENT THAT WAS SUPPOSEDLY EJECTED . WAS NOT . I REPEAT NOT EJECTED. THAT PATIENT WAS OUT OF VEHICLE . ON THEIR OWN POWER. ALLBE IT TAKEN PRI 2 DUE TO MECHANISM TO PRMC. NOW BACK TO YOUR COMMENT ON WHY TROOPER 4 WAS REQUESTED. DUE TO THE PROLONGED RESCUE AND THE EXTEME POSSIBILITY OF THE PATIENT BEING TAKEN DIRECTLY TO SHOCK TRAUMA FROM THE SCENE. TROOPER 4 WAS ON GROUND WELL WITHIN 15 MINUTES OF BEING CALLED. THE FLIGHT MEDIC WAS ON SCENE TALKING TO THE PARAMEDIC AND ASSESSING THE EXTENT OF PATIENTS INJURIES. AFTER REMOVING THE PATIENT AND DOING A BETTER SURVEY OF INJURIES THE PARAMEDIC DTERMINED THAT WITH THE EXTENT OF INJURIES AND THE EQUIPMENT THAT WAS NEEDED TO STABILZE THE PATIENT ALONG WITH THE ROOM NEEDED FOR SUCH EQUIPMENT. ALONG WITH TALKING TO THE FLIGHT MEDIC AND HIM SAYING IT WOULD TAKE 10 MINUTES TO GET PATINET TO PRMC. THE PARAMEDIC DETERMINED TO TAKE PATIENT BY GROUND WITHIN 8 MINUTES AND HAVING MORE ROOM TO STABILIZE THE PATIENT ALONG WITH ADDITIONAL PROVIDERS THAT ARE ABLE TO RIDE THE AMBULANCE INSTEAD OF THE HELICOPTER , WHERE YOU ARE EXTREMELY LIMITED IN ROOM AND THE NUMBER OF PROVIDERS THAT CAN GO IN HELICOPTER.(2 MAX DUE TO SPACE AND WEIGHT RETRISTIONS), IT WAS DETERMINED TO TRANSPORT BY GROUND.END RESULT PATIENT ARRIVED AT PRMC ALIVE, STABLE AND IN GOOD HANDS OF THE TRAUMA TEAM AT PRMC . SO UNTIL YOU KNOW ALL FACTS BY BEING THERE FIRST HAND SAVE YOUR OPINIONS FOR YOURSELF AND SAVE ALL OF US THE DRAMA AND NEGATIVE STATEMENTS DIRECTED AT THE LOCAL VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER AND EMS THAT PROTECT YOU AND ALL THE NEARBY AREA 24/7 REGARDLESS OF WEATHER OR TIME OR SITUATION. THIS IS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE THAT WAS THERE."
You mean, this picture? Salisbury News Delivers.
44 comments:
I thought the houses in that area have salisbury addresses... How come pittsville and parsonsburg were on the scene... I did see an trucks from Salisbury there..
The commenter that made this post seems to be quite illiterate and I am embarrassed for him and the entire fire service. God help me if I need the services of him or her.
911 addresses don’t always dictate what fire / police department responds to your emergency. Such response districts are determined geographically by the appropriate chiefs. Unfortunately the closest department doesn’t always respond due to the method used to determine response areas. Streets, roads, and intersections determine districts. Typically numbered addresses between two intersections don’t determine who responds. The intersection, bridge, railroad, exc. determine the breaking point of who responds. This makes it easy for everyone most importantly the 911 dispatchers trying to figure responses in a hurry. Multiple company responses on structure fires or rescues make better for the customer as the fastest to respond may be the first one there to litigate the emergency.
I will disagree with you about this one, Joe. Having a chopper on the scene isn't about show.
Look at that vehicle.
If it were my loved one, I'd want the cavalry there, too.
Emergency preparedness sometimes does mean things that look like overkill. But they aren't those times they have to kick into gear. And if a life is lost because there wasn't ENOUGH of something on the scene, then all hell will break loose with the public.
The FD's have their problems, Salisbury especially with its leadership all the way to the top.
But in terms of the service they provide, my hat's off to 'em. Go after the stuff that NEEDS going after. You do a good job with that.
Thanks,
A Reader
The accident happened on Walston Switch road. Actually in responce time, Parsonsburg it's about 6 of one half dozen of the other. Anything coming out of Salisbury has all that traffic to contend with. Doesn't really matter who got there first, somebody got there and kudos to all.
I just looked at the Daily Times website 2/9/2008 at 7:45PM and they report both drivers were flown to the hospital. Guess they aren't allowed to read your blog Joe!
The person who posted the all CAPS response only makes the case for paid fire departments within the county. It takes three fire departments to respond to a two vehicle accident! A paid department you would have a Rescue Engine and 2 ambulances. The cost to send 3 departments, ambulances, fire trucks, rescue truck, etc..
How does it go? How many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb. Former LACFD
Walston Switch Rd has Salisbury address, but it is in Parsonsburg elect for fire and rescue. I believe that Parsonsburg covers everything fron Parsonsburg to Hobbs Rd.
The county needs paid fire & EMS service.
'The person who posted the all CAPS response only makes the case for paid fire departments within the county. It takes three fire departments to respond to a two vehicle accident!'
Once again, someone, presumably Joe, shows their ignorance of the fire service. A accident of that magnitude in the middle of SBY would have generated a box response from all 3 SFD stations. Same thing if it happened in Baltimore, BCo, DCFD, FDNY or any other paid or volunteer juristiction. On just about any serious call of any type, a 3 or 4 dept box response is the national standard. I just wish all you people who are totally clueless about the fire service would stop being the Monday morning QB's. This was an excellent response and and excellent rescue, and you people how dont have the balls to be in EMS critize successful calls. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
The county HAS paid primary EMS service. The county couldn't afford to replace all the dedicated volunteers, their service, and their fundrasing efforts with even a skeleton paid force.
Former LACFD, Guess what, you don't live in Kalifornia any more. Salisbury FD, the local paid guys, doesn't even own a "rescue engine" at any of its 3 stations. I believe the closest thing to a rescue engine around here is owned by the Delmar vollies. I suggest you learn the working of things around here before you instigate some sort of paid vs. vollie argument. On the Eastern Shore, paid and vollies work side by side, as equals. Many paid ff's are vollies in their off time. So send your big city union fire dept attitude back to the west coast. It has no place here.
anonymous 8:14,
there was only two companies at this accident station 6 and station7. As per our S.O.P.'s MVC's w/rescue are automatcally a two station response and thats exactly what you got. So open your mouth and insert your foot, next time think before you speak. Oh and why would your "paid" department send a rescue and TWO ambulances automatically. If you only have one patient you don't need two medic units. How bout an engine, your "paid" department doesn't provide it's rescue company with the simple courtesy of a hose line, just in case something decides to go boom? I now see why your FORMER LACFD.
Tim Chaney stated:
"I just looked at the Daily Times website 2/9/2008 at 7:45PM and they report both drivers were flown to the hospital. Guess they aren't allowed to read your blog Joe!"
The daily times was wrong, neither patient was flown, both were transported by ground units.
local vollie said...
The county HAS paid primary EMS service. The county couldn't afford to replace all the dedicated volunteers, their service, and their fundrasing efforts with even a skeleton paid force.
12:42 AM
local ignoramus, I mean vollie, the county does not HAVE primary paid EMS service. By the way ignoramus do you know what the "S" is in EMS? It is service so why are you saying service twice. The county has paid wannabes and SFD medics making parttime money while the vollie stations get full time grants from the county. Why is it that the county gives the vollies money per paramedic but the vollie stations don't compensate the medics what they are supposed to. From what I hear they are only paying the medics half of what they get per hour from the county.
Who said anything about replacing all the volunteers? They would volunteer for the county and not the renegade vollie stations just like they do in the other counties with county fire departments. It is called accountability. Something you are to ignorant to know about.
2 hatter, your only partially right. Salisbury doesn't have a "rescue engine", but we do have rescue 16. The difference would be that us having a single unit designated to rescue only allows for bigger and more tools. Rescue engines still have a pump, water tank, the minimum hose required by NFPA & most of the time the bare minimums on rescue tools. So before you call someone out make sure you have all your facts straight.
Pittsville f/f an mvc w/rescue in salisbury is only a two station response. Just FYI
"I now see why your FORMER LACFD."
Ever hear of RETIREMENT, ASSHOLE?????
Anonymous 9:10, go easy retard. Wicomico county does have a paid EMS division. I get paid exactly what I'm supposed to and all portions of the county are covered. The stations split up coverage. The way it works is a group of stations will each have one or two paid medics and they alternate coverage, so they cover the whole county. I.E. station 6 will provide the medic today and tommorow station 7's medic works, but they cover both stations as needed. So now who's the ignoranus & yes I know I spelled ignoranus, just a polite way of calling you an ass.
pittsville f/f said...
Once again, someone, presumably Joe, shows their ignorance of the fire service.
12:34 AM
Joe didn't make that post so back off. Go back to your little hick town and prepare for your next bingo because you are obviously the one that has no clue. Joe is doing the public and excellent service by exposing the dirt on local government. His posting about the accident was news and nothing else. It isn't his fault people post their thoughts. People are entitled to their opinions. Why do you rednecks get bent out of shape when someone comments about a paid fire department in the county. What is the threat to you guys? Are you all afraid someone is going to tell you how to play in your sandbox? Get real!! The fire and EMS is something the county should have control over. We are talking about saving lives and not keeping up with the Jones'.
Joe A. thank you for providing a great service at no cost to the tax payers.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous 9:10, go easy retard. Wicomico county does have a paid EMS division. I get paid exactly what I'm supposed to and all portions of the county are covered. The stations split up coverage. The way it works is a group of stations will each have one or two paid medics and they alternate coverage, so they cover the whole county. I.E. station 6 will provide the medic today and tommorow station 7's medic works, but they cover both stations as needed. So now who's the ignoranus & yes I know I spelled ignoranus, just a polite way of calling you an ass.
9:38 AM
If you think the county has a paid EMS Division the prove it. I will help you out a little bit. Here is a link to the county and you can go there to find out what where the appropriate division is. www.wicomicocounty.org
This is the stupidest idea of providing effective and efficient EMS coverage that I have ever heard of. By the way I don't believe you are a paid medic saying you are getting paid what you are supposed to. Any real paramedic in this county knows they are far underpaid. I hope the county takes over Fire and EMS in the near future because you idiots are dangerous.
It's not "Wicomico County EMS", each station has it in their budget to staff one or two medics full time. The reason the coverage is done like this is because the smaller county stations can't afford to staff four medics (A,B,C,D shift) & wicomico county won't put out the money. I'm not a county employee I'm employed by the station I work at. I make $36,000 a year, so how is that so underpaid considering the cost of living in this area is so much lower than the areas you try to compare my salary to? Granted we don't get paid what the bigger cities do, but we're comparable to salisbury and don't handle near the call volume. The way you made it sound is that the station I work for keeps half my pay check. I average 3 E.M.S. calls per shift. Since you think it's such a stupid way to cover the county call your county council rep and take it up with the county. We're just working with the scraps we're given to insure everyone has A.L.S. care if needed. I'm not one of these people thats going to say "I wait for the day you need me cause I won't be there", me ,no , I want to come save your life because then you may change your perspective on what I do and who I am. People like you need to realize it's not all about the money. I do it for free for one station and get paid at the another. I love what I do and thats why I do it. The other thing that bothers me about people like you, is that you judge us on the guidelines we follow. So your true problems should be directed to the administrations, not the men and women doing the work. You label us all as dangerous idiots and you don't even know but maybe a handful of us and I know you don't know me. So exactly whats your reasoning for calling us all dangerous idiots.
Anonymous said...
It's not "Wicomico County EMS", each station has it in their budget to staff one or two medics full time. The reason the coverage is done like this is because the smaller county stations can't afford to staff four medics (A,B,C,D shift) & wicomico county won't put out the money. I'm not a county employee I'm employed by the station I work at. I make $36,000 a year, so how is that so underpaid considering the cost of living in this area is so much lower than the areas you try to compare my salary to? Granted we don't get paid what the bigger cities do, but we're comparable to salisbury and don't handle near the call volume. The way you made it sound is that the station I work for keeps half my pay check. I average 3 E.M.S. calls per shift. Since you think it's such a stupid way to cover the county call your county council rep and take it up with the county. We're just working with the scraps we're given to insure everyone has A.L.S. care if needed. I'm not one of these people thats going to say "I wait for the day you need me cause I won't be there", me ,no , I want to come save your life because then you may change your perspective on what I do and who I am. People like you need to realize it's not all about the money. I do it for free for one station and get paid at the another. I love what I do and thats why I do it. The other thing that bothers me about people like you, is that you judge us on the guidelines we follow. So your true problems should be directed to the administrations, not the men and women doing the work. You label us all as dangerous idiots and you don't even know but maybe a handful of us and I know you don't know me. So exactly whats your reasoning for calling us all dangerous idiots.
10:34 AM
If you are really a medic and you are satisfied with the "scraps" you are paid by these vollie companies then you deserve what you get paid. There is a nationwide paramedic shortage and qualified paramedics can get a decent salary. My assumption is that you are basically useless and a poor provider so you settle for less. Why aren't you working for Salisbury? You might fit the description of incompetent that someone mentioned earlier and that is one reason someone labeled you dangereous.
If you average 3 calls per shift then you guys are raping the county taxpayers. That is a very expensive ride to the hospital at the expense of the county. They might be better off sending a taxi to the call. It would be a lot cheaper. The reason the vollie companies went into the ambulance business is to get all of that funding paid out to the companies for the ambulance and the paramedics and the fact that the companies can keep the insurance billing. Sure beats doing fundraisers wouldn't you say?
That was the point of my post, DelmarvaNow.com was wrong. I did read the original post that said there were no victims transported by air. Makes sense, if you can get there by vehicle 2 minutes faster, why fly? I see today they have corrected the mistake, it can happen to anyone.
I do think think it was a good idea to have the chopper there just in case. If anyone reading this was in an accident like that I doubt anyone would balk at having a backup plan if needed without adding additional responce time. Again...Kudos to all involved..
Tim Chaney said...
I do think think it was a good idea to have the chopper there just in case. If anyone reading this was in an accident like that I doubt anyone would balk at having a backup plan if needed without adding additional responce time. Again...Kudos to all involved..
12:05 PM
Tim, the concept of having a chopper sounds great, but it just isn't practical. The area is just to close to the hospital and the ambulance will get the patient to the hospital much quicker so the chopper is a waste of a valuable resource. Even Ocean City is to close for a transport to PRMC. Now as far as having a competent provider there, you may be on to something. Go MSP!!
Anonymous said...
...I know you don't know me.
10:34 AM
It's a good thing some of these people don't know you because they would probably laugh at you.
"2 hatter, your only partially right. Salisbury doesn't have a "rescue engine", but we do have rescue 16. The difference would be that us having a single unit designated to rescue only allows for bigger and more tools"
anon 930- I am well aware of recsue 16, and it's excellent capabilities. My point was to the "west coast retired paid know it all" was not most depts- even the paid ones- around here do not have water on their rescues. Therefore, you would want an engine responding from somewhere along with the rescue "jest in case". I'm amazed at all the bitching that goes on on this site claiming an excess of equipment and manpower getting out the door to incidents. You whiners don't know how lucky you are. You should go live in the sticks of PA or NJ for awhile, where they are lucky to get one piece out the door, and it's 20 years old.
County EMS, yea right. Just so Pollitt can raid all the money that goes to the fire depts and the county can afford alot more giveaways pens.
YOU IDIOTS CAN RUN YOUR MOUTHS ALL YOU WANT BUT WHEN YOUR MOM OR DAD, BROTHER OR SISTER, SON OR DAUGHTER CALL ON US THEN YOU CAN’T KISS OUR ASSES FAST ENOUGH. THEN YOU SAY GO BACK TO OUR HICK TOWNS AND WORK OUR BINGOS AND YOU CAN’T MANAGE TO USE PROPER GRAMMER IN YOUR POST. HOW IS COUNTY CONTROL GOING TO BE BETTER? LESS MANPOWER AND EQUIPMENT COVERING LARGER AREAS OF REAL ESTATE, THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE. YOU PEOPLE CUT YOU’RE NOSES OFF TO SPITE YOUR FACE. THINK ABOUT WHAT I AM SAYING, YOUR MOM NEEDS A FIRE TRUCK TO RESPOND BECAUSE OF A POT ON THE STOVE THAT IS ON FIRE BUT THE ONE ENGINE COVERING THE EAST SIDE OF THE COUNTY IS ON ANOTHER CALL AND THEN WHERE IS YOUR MOM. I’LL TELL YOU, BURNT TO A CRISP IN THE BASEMENT AT PRMC. MORONS. BE HAPPY WE HAVE ADEQUATE MANPOWER AND EQUIPMENT TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THIS GROWING AREA.
Joe did not write the response you presumed he wrote. The person showing the lack of knowledge of the fire service is you. This is again why a paid service is needed within the county.
First please respond with more information on the “National Standard” you quoted in your response. Please give a web address of this national standard.
If you want to learn more about “standard or typical” responses please read a book or do a general search on the internet. Here is a fine example from a department in Nevada.
Dispatched for a motor vehicle accident involving a semi-truck. Investigation revealed a three- vehicle accident with one occupant entrapped. Crews extricated and transported the patient from the scene. 2nd patient transported by Medic 4.
Responding Apparatus: Car 1, Engine 4 (Rescue-Engine) Medic 2 and Medic 4.
The next item is the county does not use “box” area responses. That idea was shot down. The response around here except Salisbury FD and Ocean City FD is “dump the house” an idea dropped by many departments long ago. It’s expensive, more risk of an accident etc.
SERIOUSLY, SOMEONE TELL ME HOW CUTTING BACK WILL HELP WHEN ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE COUNTY AND THE EAST SIDE NEEDS TO GO HELP OUT NOW YOU HAVE EQUIPMENT RUNNING ALL OVER THE PLACE. THAT IS REALLY SAFER? AND YOU WILL PUT MORE MILEAGE ON EQUIPMENT THAT MEANS IT HAS TO BE REPLACED MORE FREQUENTLY. ANY FIREFIGHTER KNOWS MOST TRUCKS CAN BE 10 YEARS OLD WITH ONLY 10K MILES ON IT. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW MANY OF THESE ANON POSTS ARE FROM PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE SALISBURY CITY LIMITS?
anonymous 11:41,
How am I raping the tax payers because the call volume in my district only runs about 1100 EMS calls a year. I can't create a greater call volume.
I'll simply state this again since your illiterate self didn't read it in my first post. I don't do what I do for the money. I don't settle for scraps, thats all I have to work with. If everyone did this for the money we wouldn't have any paid EMS crews outside of Ocean City here on the eastern shore. So for us to not work these areas because they are in your words "underpaid" would leave citizens without A.L.S care when they need it most. I love what I do and I love the communities I serve and for nothing more or nothing less, that's why I do it.
I love how, because I'm making a living off of the salary I have now and have no desire to change jobs for a pay raise, that makes me "useless" and "incompetent". Some of the best doctors in the world work for free clinics where they make 1/10 of the salary a doctor at even little old PRMC would make and some of the best paramedics in the country never go career. So because they don't seek only the top paying jobs that makes them incompetent too, uh?
I'm going to throw a big word that will some up why some of us do our job for considerably less money than others, so sound it out if you need, it's called compassion, because for you to not know me and label me as such just shows your lack of maturity and level of ignorance.
To just show your ignorance of how E.M.S. works here in MD I'll explain it. The volunteer stations didn't get into the "ambulance business", MIEMSS ( maryland institute for emergency services systems) requires these Fire Departments to have an E.M.S. division. Look at what Kentland Vol. Fire Dept was going through. The state of MD told them they had to incorporate and staff an E.M.S. division, they refused and were restricted on their calls for service. Private ambulance companies are not recognized in the state of MD, as are FD's EMS crews. Thats why you only see them doing interfacility transports. Because believe me in this area if they could get their teeth into emergency calls they would. But their not even allowed to transport for us unless the health care facility requests them. So try pushing that B.S. on someone who doesn't know better. Most of their ambulances are not A.L.S. certified anyway.
By the way if you know so much and could make everything so much better why don't you apply that knowledge to somewhere other than your keyboard and make a change. Oh, my fault it's much easier to just complain about the way things are, than to try and make a difference. Probably because those who won't, can't.
My apologies then 2hatter, I misunderstood your point. I just get fed up with these know it alls who know nothing. Where I'm originally from it's so rural structure fires are a single station response, unless requested. But our house had three engines, a truck, a rescue, 2 ambulances, a brush truck, an eightenen wheeler for a tanker and an air light. But on any given night you could be sent into BFE on the 1st run piece, thinking more people are going to show up to your house and don't. then your about forty minutes from the next due company and only have a 1,000 gallons of water. Which as you know won't last long if conditions are right.
A pot on the stove is about all that could be handled during the day by the 6 volunteers showing up on 5 different trucks after they drive to the station, and then respond to the call. I would rather see a 5 person crew that are pyhsically fit to handle a call respond directly from the station. If you think only 3 paid stations would cover the county you know nothing about how to set up paid fire districts or box areas.
If you needed to be flown to Baltimore's Shock Trauma you'd be glad the chopper was there waiting.
To just show your ignorance of how E.M.S. works here in MD I'll explain it. The volunteer stations didn't get into the "ambulance business", MIEMSS ( maryland institute for emergency services systems) requires these Fire Departments to have an E.M.S. division. Look at what Kentland Vol. Fire Dept was going through. The state of MD told them they had to incorporate and staff an E.M.S. division, they refused and were restricted on their calls for service.
MIEMSS does no such thing as make any fire company run and ambulance. I suggest you call the local MIEMSS office 410-822-1799 and confirm what you are saying...noting that several companies in Wico, Som, and Worc Counties have fire companies that do NOT have ambulances.
ANON 441 IF YOU THINK 6 VOLLIES ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO DRIVE 5 TRUCKS THEN YOU KNOW NOT WHAT YOU SPEAK OF. AND I KNOW PLENTY ABOUT PAID FIRE STRUCTURE AND BOX ALARM SET UPS. BUT YOU CAN BE REST ASSURED IN THIS COUNTY THEY WILL DO IT THE CHEAPEST WAY POSSIBLE ONLY LEADING TO MAJOR F**K UPS.
Tim Chaney said...
If you needed to be flown to Baltimore's Shock Trauma you'd be glad the chopper was there waiting.
6:10 PM
In this county the patient goes to PRMC first and lays around for about three or four hours before being shipped out?
Anonymous said...
To just show your ignorance of how E.M.S. works here in MD I'll explain it. The volunteer stations didn't get into the "ambulance business", MIEMSS ( maryland institute for emergency services systems) requires these Fire Departments to have an E.M.S. division. Look at what Kentland Vol. Fire Dept was going through. The state of MD told them they had to incorporate and staff an E.M.S. division, they refused and were restricted on their calls for service.
MIEMSS does no such thing as make any fire company run and ambulance. I suggest you call the local MIEMSS office 410-822-1799 and confirm what you are saying...noting that several companies in Wico, Som, and Worc Counties have fire companies that do NOT have ambulances.
6:33 PM
Thank you for correcting that idiot before I did.
He has the nerve to call someone illiterate!!! It is "sum up" not "some up." Idiot. Again I rest my case as to why you aren't in demand and it has nothing to do with your "passion." What is your name so we can know how passionate you are?
ANON 4:13 is probably some hillbilly jackass from lifestar, who could only wish to do an actual emergency transport. That MIEMSS bullshit is the funniest thing i have ever heard of. Wonder why you work for lifestar??
Oh and Millsie, your one of the ones posting shit on here and the watchdesk that gives the entire fire service a bad name. Shut your hillbilly ass up and stay in Pittsville, the land where they can talk a fire out with radio waves...lmao
"Look at what Kentland Vol. Fire Dept was going through. The state of MD told them they had to incorporate and staff an E.M.S. division, they refused and were restricted on their calls for service."
Incorrect. The State of Maryland had nothing to do with this example. This matter was between the department, the county fire chief and the county executive.
William Carey
Let me just say that one of my loved ones WAS in the accident and I am grateful for every EMS representative that was there.. without those volunteers the outcome could have been much different... I was on the scene and I saw first hand how hard they were all working.. I too am a taxpayer and in this case because of "everyone" that showed up...my tax dollars went to good use..and my loved one is alive.
So instead of a negative message... I say... Thank you for your help and thank you for being there..
Why do Salisbury firefighters think they are so much better than volunteers? Most paid salisbury firefighters were at one time volunteers, they seem to forget that at times. The training that volunteers take through MFRI and other agencies are the same classes that these paid firefighters take. Do they think because they run more calls that makes them better, you have volunteer fire departments like Delmar, Hebron and others that run many fire and accident calls and seem to handle them just fine haven't heard of any lawsuits etc... saying that they hurt people or didn't do what they were supposed to do. The attitudes of "some" salisbury firefighters is why there was that big blow up between salisbury vollies and salisbury paid personnel. So all of us in these "hicktowns" need to stay where we are at and do what we do best and not worry about the ignorant attitudes of "some" salisbury firefighters, most of us know who those bad attitudes are.
So vollies everywhere keep up the good work!!!!
Signing off Disgusted
ANON 921 JUST THE FACT THAT YOU KNOW I AM FROM PITTSVILLE IS A COMPLIMENT. I WOULD PAY YOU A COMPLIMENT BUT YOU HIDE YOUR NAME BECAUSE YOU ARE ASHAMED OF WHO YOU ARE. NOT ME, NOT EVER. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM WITH ME, OR IS IT MY OPINION? HOW HAVE I GIVEN THE FIRE SERVICE A BAD NAME? AND IN YOUR LAND HOW DO YOU PUT YOUR FIRES OUT? WHAT LAND ARE YOU FROM? PLEASE, YOU KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT ME TELL US ALL ABOUT YOURSELF. ARE YOU SCARED?
I have heard all the posts on this story and I think any member of the fire service the "dogs" a fellow fire department or firefighter gives the fire service a bad name. That is all that anyone on here has done. It doesn't matter if the fire department that you are complaining about is your neighbor or not, isn't the fire service supposed to be a "botherhood". Don't expect people to like you if all you do is rant about the bad things another department does. Keep it to yourself and if you think what they do is so bad then just be glad it isn't your company and if it is really something that is bad or harmful someday unforunately it will come and bite them in the ass.
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