Fighting Fire With Criminals

There will come a day when someone will actually take the time to fully investigate the Salisbury Fire Department and surrounding Fire Departments as well but just recently I came to learn several issues in which Mayor Tilghman needs to be held accountable once again because of her LACK of leadership.

First of all, your very own Chief See just put in an application to the Delmar Fire Department. Volunteer status or not, he has abandoned his own Department after spending $10,000,000.00 on a brand new facility. Deny it Chief, I dare you.

Then, to top it off, 3 other Salisbury Paid Firefighters that I know of, (I'm told there were actually 5 total but I only have 3 other names at the moment) have sold their homes in Salisbury and purchased homes in Delmar, DE. and have also applied to join the Delmar Fire Department as well.

While I'm happy to see Delmar get such quality Fire Fighters, Salisbury continues to lose quality Volunteers and when I preached to all of you over the past two years that people were jumping ship and were NOT going to relocate to the new Fire Station, I was exactly right.

So what has this $10,000,000.00 Fire Station brought us? Would you believe, CRIMINALS? A year or so ago I brought to every one's attention that there was only one paid black Firefighter. Chief See and Deputy Chief Gordy went into a damage control spin and immediately hired another black professional Firefighter named David Cox. You remember David, don't you? He's the guy who was recently arrested for allegedly impersonating a Police Officer. GO HERE to see the article and evidence against Mr. Cox.

What many of you didn't know is, Cox was hired even though he had a criminal history. That's right, See & Gordy absolutely 100% knew this guy was trouble but they needed another black Firefighter so they hired him anyway.

For the first time in Salisbury's History, a Firefighter was arrested for criminal activity, or so they claimed anyway. I came to learn that was complete BS. Now I'd like all of you to go into the Maryland Case Search Files and look up a Mr. Ronald Brandon Jones, recently hired by the Salisbury Fire Department. Mr. Jones has quite the criminal history as well, yet the SFD refuses to recognize such history because they are desperate for people and are ignoring standard protocol.

I ask you Folks, why is the Mayor creating a Criminal Task Force, yet they're hiring criminals within?

Now this is nothing new to the Eastern Shore as Sharptown has one of their own Firefighters with a criminal history, Mr. Cooper. I wish I had more time to investigate all of the names within these Fire Departments to see just how bad things are but I ask you Folks, you have placed trust in the Leaders of these Departments to make sure that when your home is in danger, you want people you can trust going into your home and secure your life long possessions. Do you want people with criminal a history going into your home?

I may get some Firefighters not liking this particular article and Lord knows I'll get some of that crap, we save lives. I respect those men and women who do in fact put their lives on the line for you and I but IF you have a criminal history, you don't belong in the Fire Department. I would hope they would agree.

As for the Firefighters who are leaving their Volunteer status in Salisbury and moving to Delmar and joining the Delmar Fire Department they are,

Chief David See
Brandon Records
Zach Keenan
Zach Bridges

I should add. There was a study done a couple of years ago asking each and every Firefighter what they thought of the Salisbury Fire Department and the Leadership there. Overwhelmingly, Firefighters complained one after the other that Chief See was not running the Fire Department, he was extremely difficult to get along with and See was pissed at the results.

Today, most Firefighters state that See is nowhere to be found any more and quite frankly he's the last guy that should have a take home vehicle as he rarely ever scows up to a fire AFTER he has left work for the day. One Firefighter even told me in all the years he's been there he has only seen See show up ONE time after hours to a fire. Many believe his vehicle should be taken away as he's not a team player and never has been.

Never ask someone to do something you wouldn't do yourself, that's what I say. It just goes to show you that the Leadership in Salisbury sucks in most Departments and it's time for a change. I know many of the Council Members will be reading this article and I'd even expect some of this to come up in future Debates. The SFD is hiring criminals and yes, they do background checks on every single person brought into the Fire Department. See & Gordy don't play by the rules and I think it's time to make some serious changes, not that See is working anyway, he's never there.