Engine 1 responded and arrived on scene advising a 3 vehicle MVC.
Command advised Rt. 50 West bound is shut down.
Command requesting Deputy Chief 1 to the scene.
Central advises a 20 minute ETA on Deputy Chief 1.
SPD is requesting Fire police for traffic control.
UPDATE: Rt. 50 Command just advised Central to place Assistant Chief 1 out of service. Assistant Chief 1 is a brand new SUV Command Vehicle.
Command requesting Deputy Chief 1 to the scene.
Central advises a 20 minute ETA on Deputy Chief 1.
SPD is requesting Fire police for traffic control.
UPDATE: Rt. 50 Command just advised Central to place Assistant Chief 1 out of service. Assistant Chief 1 is a brand new SUV Command Vehicle.
78 comments:
WTH!! No driving Fools!! I hope no one got hurt.
Hope all is ok or not seriously injured. With that said, all the disputes with the City concerning SFD makes me ask were they responding to a call or was this a casual drive possibly personal? As a Tax Payer I say if they were not responding to a call in an official capacity then they are liable for all damages incurred with this incident and discipline action taken. If not responding to a call in an official capacity was this misuse of the vehicle for personal usage? Is personal usage charged to the employee or considered a benefit that is taxable income for the employee? Like to hear Hoppes explain if not responding to an incident in official capacity. This is a budgetary expense that should be reviewed. I am sick and tired of seeing SFD equipment riding around sight seeing with them calling it training. This gets worse when SU gets back. Like to see their training manual and read their guidelines.
Uh Oh! Someone is going for a P!$$ Test.
6:21... They were responding to an accident west bound 50 west of Hobbs Rd
It will be interesting on how it released to the public. Stay on top of it Joe !
Concerned Retiree said...
Hope all is ok or not seriously injured. With that said, all the disputes with the City concerning SFD makes me ask were they responding to a call or was this a casual drive possibly personal? As a Tax Payer I say if they were not responding to a call in an official capacity then they are liable for all damages incurred with this incident and discipline action taken. If not responding to a call in an official capacity was this misuse of the vehicle for personal usage? Is personal usage charged to the employee or considered a benefit that is taxable income for the employee? Like to hear Hoppes explain if not responding to an incident in official capacity. This is a budgetary expense that should be reviewed. I am sick and tired of seeing SFD equipment riding around sight seeing with them calling it training. This gets worse when SU gets back. Like to see their training manual and read their guidelines.
August 7, 2016 at 6:21 PM
Good points. From what I understand the Station 1 Volunteers were already on a minor MVC on Rt. 50 West of Hobbs Road. The paid assistant chief was responding, or really sneaking up on them, to that call, but wasn't on the call. They didn't mark up so your question of were they responding in an official capacity? NO!! The paid assistant chiefs do that all the time. They think they can just flip on the lights and sirens and respond to any call without marking up any time they want. Assistant Chief 1 was not dispatched to that minor motor vehicle crash on Rt. 50 and he should not have been responding at a high rate of speed with lights and sirens wailing. Everyone with a brain knows that Rt. 50 and Autumn Grove Road is a bad intersection and should proceed with caution. Apparently this guy thinks he is above the law and caused a serious crash involving 3 automobiles and one of them being a new $100,000 SUV command vehicle. I hope he gets charged and I hope he gets demoted. People like this are dangerous. Now I pray that no one was seriously injured. Now how is Hoppes or Tull going to lie about this one. "Here Mr. Obarsky please go pee in this cup and don't flush the toilet or wash your hands."
Anonymous Anonymous said...
6:21... They were responding to an accident west bound 50 west of Hobbs Rd
August 7, 2016 at 6:44 PM
6:44... They were not dispatched to an accident on west bound 50 west of Hobbs Rd Station 1 was and Engine 1 was already on the scene and did not need their assistance. Case Closed.
Hey they make those vehicles everyday....as long as the operator is not seriously injured.
Did he have another seizure?
That is just a messed up area to begin with. Who ever the person was that designed it should be fired. Route 50 needs fly overs instead of all these intersections. The design of how you get on and off the bypass is another cluster.
So who is Assistant Chief 1? There are many assistant chiefs listed on the Salisbury fire department website.
Assistant Chief , Big Chief , wonder why they have so many Chiefs , not enough indians .
A brand spanking new Command Vehicle now destroyed and the taxpayers have to pay for someone's stupid mistake.
Anonymous said...
So who is Assistant Chief 1? There are many assistant chiefs listed on the Salisbury fire department website.
August 7, 2016 at 7:16 PM
O'Barsky is on duty today or was.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Assistant Chief , Big Chief , wonder why they have so many Chiefs , not enough indians .
August 7, 2016 at 7:20 PM
That wannabe soldier part-time boy mayor just gave them permission to create another Deputy Chief's position. Now they have 3 (THREE) Deputy Chiefs. They have a volunteer Deputy Chief and 2 paid Deputy Chief. All of those clowns have Chief's cars and neither one of them live in Salisbury. Not 1 of them live in City limits or pays city taxes.
As a matter of fact one of those fire department chiefs cars drives to Delaware every single day of the week and city taxpayers are paying for it.
Anonymous said...
That is just a messed up area to begin with. Who ever the person was that designed it should be fired. Route 50 needs fly overs instead of all these intersections. The design of how you get on and off the bypass is another cluster.
August 7, 2016 at 7:11 PM
Don't blame someone's negligent driving on a state engineer. That is just plane stupid.
I just checked their website and saw that they had 10 paid acting Lieutenants?? WTH is going on there. A small town fire department with 10 paid acting Lieutenants. How many paid firemen do they have? Looks like too many chiefs and no Indians.
Is your "from what I understand" street talk or correct info from a witness. Many get on here accusing and condemning with no knowledge. Kind of reminds me of BLM thugs who judge guilt before the corpse hits the pavement.
It was designed by McCrone Inc.
Not the Sha.
For the record I cut someone off yesterday totally my fault. So how I never saw the vehicle. Waved and apologized. Wasn't texting or in a rush. Things happen. That's why it's called accident..hope all are ok. Together we are stronger vote trump 2016
They have ten acting lieutenants due to the fact that they have to fill an officer spot whenever the actual lieutenants or captains take off. There are approx 70 paid active firemen. Not enough to be honest.
The purpose of insurance is to repair or replace vehicles involved in accidents. So perhaps it will not be as costly to taxpayers as you believe.
Your premise begins w the department's procedures or rules. These are not necessarily above reproach for the thinking man.
They are always on 'official business' even when they stop for coffee!
Those paid assistant chiefs drive like maniacs all the time. They do nothing but freelance and pick and choose the calls they want to respond on. They can do no wrong because every time they wreck they get a free pass.
They are nothing but paid renegades and they should be stopped. Proves there is poor leadership in that department and city.
What do you have to say about that Richard A. Hoppes, BS?
What do you have to say about that mayor Jake Day?
What do you have to say about that council president Heath?
I find it funny how quick people are to bash firefighters, ems, and police when something like this happens. I have news for you...they are human too. Until you need them, then you expect them to be super human.
Anonymous said...
The purpose of insurance is to repair or replace vehicles involved in accidents. So perhaps it will not be as costly to taxpayers as you believe.
August 7, 2016 at 8:47 PM
Let me get this straight. Just because the city of Salisbury has insurance on the vehicles you think that it's Ok for the paid farmin to race up and down the road nearly killing citizens due to negligent driving? You are a special kind of stupid! You must be one of those Hillary voters!
You should be banished just for speaking such stupidity. They do not drive like maniacs. They are quite possibly the most responsible if all those employees that drive. They only go on select calls, so I have destroyed your whole rant
They are specially trained to drive faster than the speed limit and talk on cellphones while looking at their laptops, you know, so this accident in no way could possibly be the fault of the FD driver.
You all DO know that, DON'T YOU?
MY LEG HURTS, MY NECK HURTS, TOO. OH, MY LEFT ARM AND SHOULDER, TOO. DANG, MY STOMACH AND CHEST HURTS! My foot itches. Why am I seeing double? OOOOOHHHHHH!
Such Drama
Anonymous said...
You should be banished just for speaking such stupidity. They do not drive like maniacs. They are quite possibly the most responsible if all those employees that drive. They only go on select calls, so I have destroyed your whole rant
August 7, 2016 at 10:55 PM
Actually I work there and I know so I have totally destroyed your whole rant so move along little boy!
FF O'Barsky have you had your pee test yet? Your next assignment will be in Maintenance and Supply in Bunky's old job. We will get the Logistics truck back for you to drive.
8:47 Now, you let me get you straight because you are saying I said something I did not say. Where in my comment did I say " it's Ok for the paid farmin to race up and down the road nearly killing citizens due to negligent driving".
My comment to 7:30 was -insurance would replace or repair the vehicle, so the cost to taxpayer would not be a great as the comment suggested. to save yourself from looking stupid in the future, please take time to read understand sentences and paragraphs. Than when you write "Let me get this straight' your comment will show comprehesion, no BS totally off subject.
Have you spoken to Day and Council over your concern of "the paid farmin to racing up and down the road nearly killing citizens due to negligent driving? Your comment show you believe this is a severe problem - that - or you are just one of them "haven't a clue Mouth Runnerd" I have read about on this blog.
Anonymous said...
For the record I cut someone off yesterday totally my fault. So how I never saw the vehicle. Waved and apologized. Wasn't texting or in a rush. Things happen. That's why it's called accident..hope all are ok. Together we are stronger vote trump 2016
August 7, 2016 at 8:32 PM
No sir, there is no such thing as an accident. It's called negligence and this Goof's negligence cost the tax payers thousands of dollars because of this individuals serious neglect. He needs to be fired over this because there will be a gross negligence law suit against the city.
So now it is 2:15 AM and the paid Paramedic ambulance crew at Station #1 had to be alerted twice to respond to a medical emergency at Atria. I guess they were getting paid to sleep through a call like Ocean City Paramedics did. If you are going to work 24 hour shifts and get paid to sleep you better damn well wake up when you are supposed to and respond on that emergency medical call.
Poor O'Barksy he has been nothing but a burden on the citizens of Salisbury since he has been employed there. A Couple of years ago he was racing to a call that again, he wasn't dispatched to and spun out of control on Naylor Mill Road near the County Sheriff's Office and totalled one of the Ford Crown Vic's. The car had to be towed away and he had to take the pee pee test when you wreck a city vehicle. Thank God he didn't smash into an oncoming car head on and kill them like that clown in Hebron did. He got away with that one as well. Nothing like being total screw ups and getting promoted up the ranks to Assistant Chief. Poor O'Barsky.
WTH is Jake Day going to grow up and do his damned job!
Anonymous said...
So now it is 2:15 AM and the paid Paramedic ambulance crew at Station #1 had to be alerted twice to respond to a medical emergency at Atria. I guess they were getting paid to sleep through a call like Ocean City Paramedics did. If you are going to work 24 hour shifts and get paid to sleep you better damn well wake up when you are supposed to and respond on that emergency medical call.
August 8, 2016 at 2:22 AM
What the heck is going on in the Salisbury Fire Department. There is apparently a lack of leadership and obviously a lack of leadership. It sounds like that department hasn't had true leadership in a long time.
Hoppes is big on his data and statistics that try to make the volunteer response times look bad. Well let's be real and do a fair assessment on paid paramedics that are in house and how many times they have been re-alerted. More times than you can imagine.
It's time for some change. Mayor day, are you listening.
SMH well you know what yall should do...... go get yourself an app, fill it out, and become a volly and then only then will you know what the heck your talking about!
Anonymous said...
They are always on 'official business' even when they stop for coffee!
And the moron of the year award goes to..... Name one single job that does not allow employees to have a coffee break? I guess you are a super machine having never stopped work for a smoke, soda, coffee, snack? I bet you wear a catheter all day because you are to dedicated to you job to let up. Please don't reproduce or vote, Thanks!
I think the Assistant Chief runs when a non qualified firefighter is riding as an officer. Station one is short on officers. Apparently the Emt test is pretty hard.
Ahh!! Salisbury employees crying about other employees. Wow!!! Same armpit city with armpit crying employees! !!!
Sorry you can't pass an Emt test and qualify as an officer, and now need someone to hold your hand on calls. I'd leave the city if I were you guys and make your own rules.
Hey people who want to criticize our local fire dept. They are allowed to have coffee and food. I love the way people like to run they're mouths but when you are in an emergency situation your dam glad they are there. Personal or not shit happens out of our control all the time.
How rude of all of you with the bull shit comments. What's your jobs are you perfect? I think not.
I support our fire, ems & police love you all keep up the good work.
And by this comment you've proved to everyone that you're just a volunteer and you in fact do not "work" for the dept. you just show up once a month for your sugary treat meeting. No one who works for the dept would speak harshly about Chris Obarsky, as he is one of the most fair and responsible employees in the city. You are no more than a coffee club, Monday morning quarter back. Most likely one of the same people who had a great idea to try and annex your station form the city. How'd that work out
Little fish in an even smaller pond. A bunch of whiny know everything about nothing shorebillies - yes you - paid and volunteers alike.
This is by no means even close to being correct. 99% of the time the paid people get re alerted, it's due to central dispatch not acknowledging them when they mark up on the radio. The Chiefs keep their statistics not to alter any times or make anyone look bad, but yet to keep a record of just how much the volunteers fail to get out on their own calls. That's FAIL. Meaning not getting out what so ever for an emergency, some of which even house fires. Oh and then the evil paid people have to go and cover those too. Your argument is ruined pick up possey crowd
Go fill out an application if you think you can do better.
Quite possibly the dumbest comment yet. You know nothing of what happened, nor probably anything about the man driving himself. You deserve a swift right hand to the teeth
Obviously a volunteer who thinks they know something
To much kissing up
The accident in Hebron was the woman's fault per MSP
Anonymous said...
Obviously a volunteer who thinks they know something
August 8, 2016 at 2:55 PM
You are very wrong!
Anonymous said...
You all are some of the most pathetic, uneducated, low life scum I've ever witnessed. Not one of you know the departments procedures or rules, but you take it upon yourself to insert your worthless opinion. I take that back, I'm sure some of the uneducated volunteers are on here bashing the department again because they have to be over watched due to their incompetence
August 7, 2016 at 8:15 PM
See this is the culture that Rick Hoppes, John Tull and Darrin Scott has created in the Salisbury Fire Department. DIVISION and HATRED!!! This is their way of Divide and Conquer. They want to divide us all and run out the volunteers to create an all paid fire department. Not all volunteers are dumb and uneducated, but you can be rest assured there are dumb and uneducated paid firemen in the Salisbury Fire Department.
It's time for the Mayor and Council to educate themselves and break up this culture of hatred. These paid guys think they are better than every firefighter, EMT and Paramedic in this county.
Jake Day wake the HELL up and get rid of those 3 Bozos!
Anonymous said...
They are specially trained to drive faster than the speed limit and talk on cellphones while looking at their laptops, you know, so this accident in no way could possibly be the fault of the FD driver.
You all DO know that, DON'T YOU?
August 7, 2016 at 11:23 PM
Ha Ha Ha. You are kidding right?
Anonymous said...
I think the Assistant Chief runs when a non qualified firefighter is riding as an officer. Station one is short on officers. Apparently the Emt test is pretty hard.
August 8, 2016 at 7:16 AM
That is not policy and if the "officer" was "non qualified" then he shouldn't be an officer. Again this is incompetence on the part of the chiefs saying that someone is non qualified and then appointing them as an officer. This is one F*d up fire department.
Anonymous said...
The accident in Hebron was the woman's fault per MSP
August 8, 2016 at 6:18 PM
Wrong Again!
The punk driving that "command vehicle" in Hebron was not needed. He had no business responding anyway. He wasn't even a Paramedic so he wasn't going to save anyone. Instead he kills someone.
Anonymous said...
Go fill out an application if you think you can do better.
August 8, 2016 at 2:53 PM
It has nothing to do with anyone being able to do better, it is poor judgement on the paid assistant chiefs.
Anonymous said...
Quite possibly the dumbest comment yet. You know nothing of what happened, nor probably anything about the man driving himself. You deserve a swift right hand to the teeth
August 8, 2016 at 2:54 PM
Just like the punks of the Salisbury Fire Department promoting violence again.
Anonymous said...
Sorry you can't pass an Emt test and qualify as an officer, and now need someone to hold your hand on calls. I'd leave the city if I were you guys and make your own rules.
August 8, 2016 at 8:13 AM
Sorry, but it is an "EMT" test. Speaking of not being able to pass any tests your butty Darrin Scott, I mean Deputy Chief Darrin Scott, can't pass any tests either. It took him numerous times to pass every class he ever took and he failed many. As a matter of fact he didn't "pass" the Deputy Chief exam because there wasn't one and Hoppes just promoted him because of the good ole boy system.
6:26 am it seems to me that Mr. Scott has a problem with passing any class. I remember when he tried to become a real estate agent. It took him over 5 attempts to pass the State of Marylanders Real Estate Licensing Exam. Over 5 attempts and I don't know if he passed it then or not. LOLOLOLOLOL! ROTFL
"Central advises a 20 minute ETA on Deputy Chief 1."
I wonder if he was working his part-time job at the Shorebirds baseball game again and had to wait for the game to get over? At least he would have been close to the intersection and didn't have far to drive.
Anonymous said...
They are always on 'official business' even when they stop for coffee!
And the moron of the year award goes to..... Name one single job that does not allow employees to have a coffee break? I guess you are a super machine having never stopped work for a smoke, soda, coffee, snack? I bet you wear a catheter all day because you are to dedicated to you job to let up. Please don't reproduce or vote, Thanks!
August 8, 2016 at 7:02 AM
It might be OK to take a coffee break, but it isn't OK for the paid fire crews on our fire engines to drive all over Salisbury trying to find the best place to get lunch and shop for dinner.
Does anyone have any pictures of this brand new $100,000 Chevrolet Tahoe 4X4 Command Vehicle in its current wrecked condition or where it is so we can get a look at it?
You people and your comments. There is a vehicle accident every few seconds somewhere in the US. Only a handfull are FD related. Stop and think before you sit back and type something bashing Fire Departments that most of these are Volunteers coming to help someone in need and one day it just might be you or your family that's waiting for help and you will be expecting them to be there fast.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
You people and your comments. There is a vehicle accident every few seconds somewhere in the US. Only a handfull are FD related. Stop and think before you sit back and type something bashing Fire Departments that most of these are Volunteers coming to help someone in need and one day it just might be you or your family that's waiting for help and you will be expecting them to be there fast.
August 9, 2016 at 9:47 AM
Hey Dummy since you want to throw out accidents across the U.S. every few seconds guess what? Many of them are Police, Fire and EMS because of their high rates of speed.
By the way don't get off track, we are talking about the Salisbury Fire Department and a paid fire chief that can't drive. This isn't his first accident. Pay Attention!
Heidi said...
Hey people who want to criticize our local fire dept. They are allowed to have coffee and food. I love the way people like to run they're mouths but when you are in an emergency situation your dam glad they are there. Personal or not shit happens out of our control all the time.
How rude of all of you with the bull shit comments. What's your jobs are you perfect? I think not.
I support our fire, ems & police love you all keep up the good work.
August 8, 2016 at 8:39 AM
Hiedi? You mean Tara.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
So now it is 2:15 AM and the paid Paramedic ambulance crew at Station #1 had to be alerted twice to respond to a medical emergency at Atria. I guess they were getting paid to sleep through a call like Ocean City Paramedics did. If you are going to work 24 hour shifts and get paid to sleep you better damn well wake up when you are supposed to and respond on that emergency medical call.
August 8, 2016 at 2:22 AM
This is a good point. Rick Hoppes and John Tull want to keep track of how many times the volunteers have to be re-alerted. Why not keep track of how many of your paid guys on the fire trucks have to be re-alerted every single night when they sleep through calls.
That's right your paid fire crew and ambulance crews get paid to sleep every single night. Our police departments don't sleep while on duty.
I think it's time to change their 24 hour shift schedules and go to 8 hour shift that they had years ago. 8-4, 4-12, 12-8 and no one sleeps. Yep, that's how it should be because our paid crews shouldn't be able to sleep on the job.
Anonymous said...
You all are some of the most pathetic, uneducated, low life scum I've ever witnessed. Not one of you know the departments procedures or rules, but you take it upon yourself to insert your worthless opinion. I take that back, I'm sure some of the uneducated volunteers are on here bashing the department again because they have to be over watched due to their incompetence
August 7, 2016 at 8:15 PM
This is a paid fireman tell everyone that pays their salaries that they are low life scums.
Speaking of not knowing "the departments procedures or rules" he obviously doesn't because there are no policies that dictates that the paid assistant fire chief on duty is allowed to respond lights and sirens and blow through unsafe intersections.
By the way Mr. Pathethic, Uneducated, Low Life Scum Paid Fireman WTH is "over watched?"
Totally wrong. Don't know who you're trying to impress, the fire fighter was an EMT and command had requested help. And she crossed in front of him and struck his vehicle as he was trying to avoid her per witness's on the scene.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Totally wrong. Don't know who you're trying to impress, the fire fighter was an EMT and command had requested help. And she crossed in front of him and struck his vehicle as he was trying to avoid her per witness's on the scene.
August 9, 2016 at 7:36 PM
WTH are you talking about? You are definitely clueless.
If you are talking about the wreck the paid fireman wannabe assistant chief was not needed on that call. I listened to the whole event on my portable radio. Quit getting on here and lying about the truth of the matter.
Anonymous said...
You all are some of the most pathetic, uneducated, low life scum I've ever witnessed. Not one of you know the departments procedures or rules, but you take it upon yourself to insert your worthless opinion. I take that back, I'm sure some of the uneducated volunteers are on here bashing the department again because they have to be over watched due to their incompetence
August 7, 2016 at 8:15 PM
Uneducated volunteers? The last time I checked Ben Waples is far more educated then every paid fireman in Salisbury. How about uneducated paid fireman? How does that sound?
Was not talking about Salisbury call.
Anonymous said...
Was not talking about Salisbury call.
August 9, 2016 at 9:26 PM
HUH??
Reported House Fire in Salisbury
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
I have a question. Around 1:50am Wicomico Central Alerted Stations 2, 16, 1 and 5(Hebron) for a reported house fire at the corner of Church Street and Truitt Street. Isn't Station 6 Parsonsburg much closer than Hebron?
At 1:58am Station 2 was re-alerted. Command told Central to dispatch a Next Due. A couple of minutes later Central Dispatched Station 3(Fruitland). Isn't Station 6(Parsonsburg) closer than Fruitland?
At 2:01am Command requested Central dispatch a 2nd Alarm. At that time Central dispatched 3, 74 and 6(finally).
At 2:08am Command asked Central the status on responding units. Central advised nothing marked up yet.
Then Central alerted again saying Stations 8, 3, 74 and 6 due(Whatever that means?)
What is the Status on Station 6(Parsonsburg) and why weren't they alerted first and second on this call?
Another question? When did Central start hitting the all call tone for 3 stations and then an outside station for house fires in Salisbury?
I see where Assistant Chief 1 The Crash Dummy is back on duty in Salisbury. Wonder how long it will take before he crashes again.
The Crash Dummy. LMAO, How original!
You know what. When Joe posts something about the Salisbury Fire Department there are usually 100 or more comments against them. This proves that the Salisbury Fire Department is a corrupt organization.
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