- Sunday January, 4 2015 @ 00:35Nature: Medical EmergencyCity:Salisbury
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
5 comments:
Why do we need more full time firefighters?
JOE.
WOULD you please post how many actual fires there were ---how
mucch these guys are paid---why
they have to take fire trucks to
a medical call & why do they have
an elaborate kitchen they don't fix meals in at tax payers expense.
I would love to know the entire
facts ----Anyway you can do that
for us???
Sure would be appreciated.
Anonymous said...
JOE.
WOULD you please post how many actual fires there were ---how
mucch these guys are paid---why
they have to take fire trucks to
a medical call & why do they have
an elaborate kitchen they don't fix meals in at tax payers expense.
I would love to know the entire
facts ----Anyway you can do that
for us???
Sure would be appreciated.
January 5, 2015 at 8:16 PM
A study was done in years past and the study proved that less than 5% of the call volume was actually fire calls. Since then they have self dispatched themselves on most ambulance calls so with the higher ambulance call volume will only make there actual fire calls appear much, much less than the original 5%.
Anonymous 8:16, the amount of fires fluctuates from day to day, week to week, month to month and year to year. The starting salary is 36,000 give or take. We have to take fire trucks to medical calls because believe it or not, for some calls two people just isn't enough help. For example when someone isn't breathing and there is more than one task to accomplish. But you wouldn't know that, instead you'd rather insert your uneducated two cents. We actually do fix meals on a daily basis for entire shifts, on our dollar that is being that we are there for 24 hours straight. I hope that I have sufficiently made you want to go crawl under the rock you came from. The city would be better without folks like yourself, and the unofficial town president in running, Kay Gibbons.
Don't know how many fires. But FF/EMT's make just over $34,000 annually. We don't an engine or quint on all medical calls. We do run them in the event of a medical assist. Why, because it would make for a delayed response to a fire, accident, or rescue if we had to trek all the way across town to switch vehicles from a utility. Also there are times when tools are needed for patient removal. It's not anything that salisbury is alone in doing. Most departments run a capital piece on medical assists. And please tell me where you gather that the "big elaborate kitchen" doesn't get used. Because my shift and every shift I've worked on be it by mutual exchange or overtime cooks dinner daily in that kitchen. And to set the record straight the volunteers paid for the "big elaborate" appliances. Why? Because they prepare meals for their meetings, county suppers, legends breakfasts, etc. Almost every firehouse in this county has a "commercial" kitchen. Frankly if they put residential appliances in there it would be a bigger waste of money as those appliances can not withstand the use that our appliances receives. And rather than ask Joe for the truth come on by the firehouse. We'll give you a tour, and gladly answer your questions.
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