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Saturday, June 13, 2015

A Letter to the Editor 6-13-15

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The Salisbury Fire Department has 3 out of 5 of their ambulances OUT OF SERVICE!! That means they only have 2 decent ambulances left. Now the Delmar Fire Department has loaned them their 3rd run ambulance to run calls in. Yesterday they only had to ambulances in service and paid EMT's to sit around.

Just think Jim Ireton and Rick Hoppes place demands on the county and plan on not responding to calls outside of the Salisbury City Limits. That means that the Salisbury Fire Department ambulances will not respond to calls in Delmar, but yet Delmar is the better department with better leader ship for loaning Salisbury an ambulance.

This proves that the leadership in the Salisbury Fire Department is very poor and this is what the citizens get! The citizens deserve better than the leadership of Rick Hoppes, John Tull, Jim Ireton and Jake Day.

There have been at least 2 ambulances out of service at any given time for at least 3 years now. Poor planning, poor attention, poor commitment to EMS, poor commitment to the volunteers and poor leadership for many years now.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

When will this be in the Daily Times or on WBOC or WMDT???

Anonymous said...

Piss poor leadership at it's best.

Anonymous said...

They could care less about ems. The only thing they care about is the money it brings in.

Anonymous said...

Fire Jim Ireton and Fire Rick Hoppes.

Concerned Retiree said...

Fire or recall all of them. Not keeping up their equipment is neglect and a Public Health Hazard that could result in the death of a citizen. Would these idiots be held liable because of their neglect? "NO PAY FOR NO WORK". They are refusing to do their job. I am sure the better Lawyers are on standby for future clients.

Anonymous said...

Its interesting since Jim Ireton only wants to answer calls within the city and not help the county all over politics and money that he now has to borrow an ambulance from a county provider. I hope Delmar bills SFD and the city $5000 a day for use of that ambulance so that the city can continue to make money. Thats all it is about with the city because it isnt about providing a service or patient care.

Anonymous said...

Salisbury should purchase the ambulance that mardela or westside is selling for 10 or 12,000 and operate it. Not as expensive as buying a new junk ambulance, (3) which they can order July 1.