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John T. Cannon, (R) Council President At-Large 30303 Dixon Road, Salisbury, MD 21804 Office: 410-548-4696 Cell: 410-251-3282 | Larry W. Dodd (R) Council Vice President District 3 P.O. Box 1285 1009 Bell Ave. Salisbury, MD 21802Office: 410-548-4696 Home: 410-860-8032 | Ernest F. Davis,(D) District 1 8500 N. West Road, Salisbury, MD 21801 Office: 410-548-4696 Cell: 443-397-4247 | Marc Kilmer, (R) District 2 27350 Nanticoke Rd, Salisbury, MD 21801 Office: 410-548-4696 Cell: 410-845-5149 |
Matt Holloway, (R) At-Large 27585 Little Lane Salisbury, MD 21801 Office: 410-548-4696 Cell: 443-366-5490 | John Hall (R) District 4 414 Forest Lane Salisbury, MD 21801 Office: 410-548-4696 Cell: 443-365-5918 | Joe Holloway (R) District 5 32928 Shavox Road Parsonsburg, MD 21849 Office: 410-548-4696 Home: 410-749-4010 |
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149 comments:
You idiots quit. Why should the taxpayers fund your freaking hobby? You guys had funding, a facility and equipment. You blew it.. bye bye.
Why is our county is such a shambles if we have almost an entirely republican council?
There is absolutely no reason for another fire company what so ever.
The Plan includes taking about from parsonsburg Fire station district which I don't support... A lot of people upset that there are losing City Coverage and replaced with volunteers due to Insurance rates and response time. There is no need for another station.
Exactly
They paid 30k to find that exact answer.
If you really want to serve the community go join another volunteer fire company that is already established. You chose to leave the city. Since leaving the city services have continued and improved. Why should our tax dollars fund you, fund another fire department when other departments could use that money , if there is even money available. The county executive signed a fire service agreement with the city. The county executive is an elected official, above the fire chiefs association. A good ole boys club. He is above a radio committee, a click of the chiefs association. You don't want to follow the rules of the Salisbury Fire Dept. I guess you believe Mr Polidore won't have rules? Stop wasting people's time and money. Parsonsburg,Fruitland, Allen and Hebron can use you in their ranks
Umm, How about no. Just no.
The current SFD (the one better off without you rejects) is serving that area quite well, thank you. No need to waste taxpayer money (anymore of it anyway) on your little tantrum.
There voted in to support the county . Its time they do so and stop giving into what the city wants .
Support the fire company's
Time for the county council to back the volunteer fire departments! Look they gave 400k more to the city this year how about the rest of the stations! Station 1 needs to be backed or you are going to be held hostage again if the city pulls that option out!
The city treated them volunteers horrible . Note there are not many left there . The county needs to support the decision of the county chiefs association. Fund that station like they have been since 1986 .
Welcome to the next, new, Greatest Show on Earth.....peanuts extra
And if you stay tuned you are sure to get more of the same
Station 1 has a area that they have serviced since 1986 when they open the doors. Grow up council and fund them . These are well season firefighters that have a heart for the service . The county has always funded this station and I'd go as far to say if you don't a good lawyer will rip you to shreds . Look it up boys it's been done . When will you stop funding Powellville because they don't run much and we'll let's face it they can't get out either . You just can't say today I don't want to fund you . You need to support the people that vote for you not the city .
Nope. No need to fund you clowns. I'll call and happily tell them they should do the exact opposite.
It sounds like, per our delegates, there is a very large need. There is a strong need for more ems providers everyday. And I don't know about you but if my house was on fire there can't be enough people or equipment there.
Do you hate just those volunteers or everyone as a whole?
Do what's right fund that station. I live in that district and them guys and girls have been to my house when I was in need for a ditch fire at 9:00 at night and they treated me wonderful . I have a mt olive road address and I'm proud to support the volunteers of that station .
The county needs to stop funding these worthless paid people .
SFD is a joke .
Support the volunteers
The paid staffing is rude especially ginger . She treated my mother like sh*t. I'm sorry your only there for a paycheck . It's a shame . At least the volunteers take pride in there work. I don't live in the county but I have the right to voice my opinion and I belive it's in the best interest of the county to fund the volunteers. There are not many good volunteers left . The paid staffing with the city of Salisbury have horrible attuides and don't do there job like they should .
Support the county fire departments. It's your job .
The mayor had agreed to territory that is correct. The mayor won't put it on paper nor will he sit down with anybody about territory. Failure to do so before July 1 will forfeit that territory to the decision of the county chiefs association. The county chiefs association has voted to grant station 1 volunteers all of that territory. Mr mayor if you want to work on things I suggest get you kid butt up and do so . Right now sir you are a little boy .
Because the city mayor is in charge, he runs the county council.
8:37 hobby really. So volunteer fire companies are hobbies , another paid goon who couldn't get a paid job at a real fire dept so he is in Salisbury city fire department. Lol you are a joke . Go back to the bunk room and sleep. Real jobs and volunteering on the side like most all volunteers do would kill you.
From what it sounds like, they are not a new company. If the city keeps people in their old building, they are the ones attempting to create a new company. But according to the news and press releases from the organizations that recognize who is and who is not a company, the company 1 volunteers are still the company 1 volunteers, they are just relocating. I don't think anyone went to Parsonsburg when they relocated to a new building and bashed them. It appears this is kind of the same concept. Good Luck station 1 members, its obvious the paid guys are still against you like I have seen for all these years. They never supported you, always found ways to make you seem small and worthless through their lies. Its your time to shine, show the public why you were formed to begin with.
We the community need to rally out front the county councils next meeting in support of funding that volunteer company . Volunteers are fading and wicomico keeps getting them . Keep what you got and support your county stations . Fund station 1 volunteers.
Jake pull the nuclear option . We are the city screw the county .You just said it a month ago your job has no loss of sleep over the county and you only got to worry about the city . So u got such a big mouth then pull the nuclear option. At least Jim would had .
That is a lie it would be just another mutual aid company that would be closer to respond to them. Nice try but never was a plan!
There is no reason why all of Wicomico county, including Salislbury, is not volunteer. Almost every city/town/boro/county/township other than Phila and Pittsburgh is protected by volunteer fire departments. Google it. Interstates with with hazmat and railroads as well as high-rise commercial office buildings are all covered by volunteers. Look up King of Prussia. All covered by volunteers. Salisbury does not need a paid fire dept.
There is no need for a paid fire dept in Salisbury. There are plenty of cities with larger districts and bigger buildings that are protected by volunteer fire departments.
No part of the pls is to take anything from parsonsburg by the volunteers. Now the city on the other hand is a different story check the city's five year plan for the fire service
If the county is going to give money to Salisbury to provide paid fire and EMS to people that have a Salisbury address it is only fair that the entire county get the same service. If you live in the county you get volunteers. If you live in the city your city taxes should pay for 24 hours paid personnel. As usual the rest of the county gets the short end of the stick.
How does everyone feel that their tax dollars are going to pay for a certain part of the county to get paid personnel when the rest do not?
How was it served before 1986? Since 1872?
Prior to 1986 the area was serviced by station 16 (HQ) and 2, as it's now is again.
The county should pay all the fire companies in the county on a per call basis as they are for Salisbury. This would save the tax payers a lot of money.
Anonymous said...
Why is our county is such a shambles if we have almost an entirely republican council?
May 8, 2017 at 8:45 PM
Bahahaha!! Good Try Bozo! It would be just like the City of Salisbury if it was all Democrat.
Anonymous said...
There is absolutely no reason for another fire company what so ever.
May 8, 2017 at 8:54 PM
See, this shows your stupidity. It is not another fire company. It is the same and always has been the same fire company. They are just relocating and taking their territory with them. How difficult is it for you morons to comprehend that.
Wow, the little jealous boys just can't let it go! Every time there's a post about fire companies, the so-called members of some imagined "brotherhood" bicker like little kids in a sandbox over whose "army guys" are whose!
Such children!
Just let my house burn down, kids, while you sit out in the street fighting over who gets to hold whose hose. I've got insurance.
Why is a house in Salisbury district more important than my house in Fruitland. Please explain fund the volunteers
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The Plan includes taking about from parsonsburg Fire station district which I don't support... A lot of people upset that there are losing City Coverage and replaced with volunteers due to Insurance rates and response time. There is no need for another station.
May 8, 2017 at 9:06 PM
The plan does not included taking anything from Parsonsburg and never has. If you are referring to the Airport, the airport always was Station 1's until Homo Jim gave it up with scare tactics. Then the next scare tactic was the nuclear option.
What makes no sense is Parsonsburg has to come from way over on Old Ocean City Road, go through back roads, cross a major intersection on Rt. 50, drive miles of Salisbury Fire District back roads, cross over Mt. Hermon Road and then more back roads of Salisbury Fire District territory to get to the airport. The airport always belonged to Station 1 and it still should belong to Station 1. Get over yourselves Eric.
Why isn't the whole county getting paid coverage . Sounds like the county is in favor of the city only . They lack the support for there own county stations .
Support this station .
Matt Holloway and John Cannon isn't going to support Station 1 because they are in bed with Jake Day.
Anonymous said...
Wow, the little jealous boys just can't let it go! Every time there's a post about fire companies, the so-called members of some imagined "brotherhood" bicker like little kids in a sandbox over whose "army guys" are whose!
Such children!
Just let my house burn down, kids, while you sit out in the street fighting over who gets to hold whose hose. I've got insurance.
May 9, 2017 at 6:49 AM
Funny thing is kids, there rarely are any fires so why all the scare tactics.
Yes that is how it should be!
So it has always been serviced by the City of Salisbury Fire Department? So the message from the disgruntled volunteers is just rhetoric?
There is always the next election
Actually Pollitt took the airport away.
Should be a paid fire commissioner
For once the council is doing what they were elected for, saving money. I am a republican and I don't want anymore money spent. Do not fund another fire department. Plus go to a per call funding, just as you are funding Salisbury. Saves money all around. LOWER MY PROPERTY TAXES!!!
The county is responsible to fund all fire company's in their area.
Pay that station per call as well
I watched with amusement the recent WICO county council meeting on PAC-14. After speaking for over an hour Joe Morris as usual made no sense. And Busch from Hebron speaks (in between picking his nose) and make no sense at all also.
The problem here is that there is no oversight on the funding that WICO provides as a stipend. This also goes for the funding provided for hiring of ambulance crews. What Culver needs to do is provide funding for a career professional ambulance system that answers to a trained manager/ supervisor. The response times for some stations should be comsidered when funding the system.
Paul Martin and Henry Parker would NEVER have allowed things to get this far. They understood and respected volunteers. THAT is what the current Council needs to think about. WE need more volunteers to serve this County not less. We are in a terrible financial position with wealthy tax payers claiming other states and counties as their primary residence. This Council needs to start thinking about the big picture and what is coming and show some real leadership. Support the volunteers!
Exactly. The Chiefs do not want this. They do not want to loose their "power"
My county tax dollars best go towards this volunteer station. I live in this district and I'm happy with the volunteers.
Support the county stations .
If there recingonzed then they should be funded
The county needs to do there job and support all volunteers in Wicomico county
Please supports these fine individuals. It will be very hard for them to join another station after this . They are a family at each station .They deserve to be funded like they have been .
The county needs to stop putting price tags on people's life's. Fund the station .
Anonymous said...
They paid 30k to find that exact answer.
May 8, 2017 at 9:12 PM
That was a wasted $30K because it was definitely biased towards Salibury.
Stop paying the city, let the city career Fire Dept take of the city limits, take the other volunteers at the city 2 city stations out and let them serve the county . There it's solved, now you don't have to pay the city for anything, so for just $600,000 you have the problem solved. And it will save a lot more money then the current plan.
9:26 ya think......Former flunky Salisbury Fire Chief Steve Brezler it was his company who did the study. He hated volunteers and was the start of this mess. The fire service agreement guy Strasburg from the county lives next door to Ole Brezler, they talk . So do you think the volunteers are going to get a fair deal ? Then there is the Asst Chief from station 16 who had two female firefighter at his house and sexually harassed them to the point they left the department, all this the chief swept under the rug. Not going to mention his name but he is very vocal in nutters subdivision against the company that moved.
If the city didn't have vollys they wouldn't have county funding or territory
"Well season firefighters"-I would assume you meant to say well seasoned firefighters... not even remotely true.
Most of them have no clue what it actually means to be a firefighter. They are t shirt wearers, nothing more.
Every time they show up on a scene they can be found outside where it's nice and safe doing nothing or somewhere doing exactly the opposite of what they should be doing.
Training, knowledge and experience? These are the people that won't train, won't respond to calls and the only fire service experience they have is recliner time in the annex.
This guy is working behind the scenes to stop Station 1 volunteers from getting recognized as a department separate from the City of Salisbury. Does anyone think he is a conflict of interest in this whole situation?
Stephen K. Brezler
I live in the district involved, on Morris Drive, we had a smoke alarm going off at around 2:30 am in our house. It seemed like a long time before the fire dept got there, but it was only about 10 min or so give or take. The firefighters checked the house with a camera and it turned out to be a bad battery in the smoke detector. In conversation with fireman I found out that they were all volunteers. I didn't know that Salisbury fire department had volunteers until then. They were very polite and manarly , they replaced the battery with a fresh one and left. I have only good things to say about the service I received. It was great. Thanks to all the volunteers for all they do. God Bless them all.
Former Salisbury Fire Chief caught breaking the law. Just like Hoppes and Simpson, they think they are above the law. Except in this case he is found GUILTY! Exceeding the speed limit and not wearing a seat belt. Both charges are against any fire department policy. This guy has a history of trouble and he is not a credible or expert consultant or witness.
State of Maryland vs. STEPHEN KERRY BREZLER
District Court of Maryland
Case Information
Court System: District Court For Somerset County - Traffic System
Location: Somerset
Citation Number: 5F30DLX
Case Title: State of Maryland vs. STEPHEN KERRY BREZLER
Case Type: Citation - Traffic
Filing Date: 01/02/2017
Violation Date: 01/01/2017
Violation Time: 09:11:00 AM
Violation County: Somerset County
Agency Name: MSP-PRINCESS ANNE DETACH
Officer ID: 5853 Officer Name: MONK, J
Defendant
Name: BREZLER, STEPHEN KERRY
Address: 30244 STONEY BROOKE DR
City: SALISBURY State: MD Zip Code: 21804
Race: White Sex: Male Height: 6'3"Weight:200
DOB:07/1951
Involved Parties Information
Officer - Arresting/Complainant
Name: MONK
Agency Name: MSP-PRINCESS ANNE DETACH
Address: 30581 PERRY ROAD
City: PRINCESS ANNE State: MD Zip Code: 21853
Plaintiff
Name: State of Maryland
Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff
Name: State's Attorney - Somerset County
Address Line 1: 30500 Prince William Street
City: Princess Anne State: MD Zip Code:21853
Charge and Disposition Information
Charge No: 1 Statute Code: TA.21.801.1
Charge Description: EXCEEDING MAXIMUM SPEED: 69 MPH IN A POSTED 55 MPH ZONE
Speed Limit: 55 Recorded Speed: 69 Location Stopped: FORTUNE LANE @ U.S. RT 13 S/B
Probable Cause Indicator: No
Contributed to Accident: No
Personal Injury: 1
Seat Belts Used: No
Mandatory Court Appearance: No
Vehicle Tag: FX0033 State: MD Vehicle Description: BUICK ENCLAVE 2012 WHITE
Disposition
Convicted Speed:
Plea: Guilty Plea Date:01/18/2017
Disposition: Guilty Date:01/18/2017
Anonymous said...
I live in the district involved, on Morris Drive, we had a smoke alarm going off at around 2:30 am in our house. It seemed like a long time before the fire dept got there, but it was only about 10 min or so give or take. The firefighters checked the house with a camera and it turned out to be a bad battery in the smoke detector. In conversation with fireman I found out that they were all volunteers. I didn't know that Salisbury fire department had volunteers until then. They were very polite and manarly , they replaced the battery with a fresh one and left. I have only good things to say about the service I received. It was great. Thanks to all the volunteers for all they do. God Bless them all.
May 9, 2017 at 10:32 AM
And this is exactly the case. Station 1's fire district has already been covered by volunteers the majority of the time. The only time that the career firemen covered calls in Station 1 or Station 2's first due district is/was during the working hours of the day, Monday through Friday. The volunteers cover the calls every single night of the week and every single weekend. The volunteers even worked the holidays that fell on a weekday so that the career firemen could spend time with their families. That is how great the volunteers were and how great the volunteers treated the career guys. Now on the other hand you can see how sneaky and cut throat the career firemen are towards the volunteers. The Salisbury career firefighters have always tried forcing the volunteers out because they are a threat to a paid fireman's job. This is exactly what Rick Hoppes is trying to do. He is forcing ALL volunteers out of the city so it will be a fully paid fire department.
The funny and interesting this is the fact that a city this size does not need a fully paid fire department. Why you might as? Because the city this size rarely has any fires.
Why is Rick Hoppes and the paid firemen saying there so many calls the fire truck responds on you might ask? Tell them to show you the types of calls the fire trucks are responding on.
The kinds of calls the fire trucks are responding on is "Medical Assist." The medical assist is where the fire trucks respond to ambulance calls to "help" the ambulance crews? Well who helped the ambulance crews before you might ask? Well there were real men and women on the ambulances that could handle the patient all by themselves without paid firemen standing around. They are typically useless on ambulance calls, but they respond only to increase the fire truck responses to make themselves look very busy. It's called job security. The irony also is the fact that he 911 center isn't dispatching the fire trucks on their own. They are illegally responding to assist the ambulance on their own. It is called self dispatching and it isn't allowed. In a real fire department if a fire truck wasn't dispatched the 911 operator would tell them to return to service.
The fire chief and career/paid firemen of the Salisbury Fire Department are nothing but a fraud.
Anonymous said...
9:26 ya think......Former flunky Salisbury Fire Chief Steve Brezler it was his company who did the study. He hated volunteers and was the start of this mess. The fire service agreement guy Strasburg from the county lives next door to Ole Brezler, they talk . So do you think the volunteers are going to get a fair deal ? Then there is the Asst Chief from station 16 who had two female firefighter at his house and sexually harassed them to the point they left the department, all this the chief swept under the rug. Not going to mention his name but he is very vocal in nutters subdivision against the company that moved.
May 9, 2017 at 9:48 AM
"Then there is the Asst Chief from station 16 who had two female firefighter at his house and sexually harassed them to the point they left the department, all this the chief swept under the rug."
Oh, that is a new one for me. Who is the Assistant Chief you are talking about. You named Steve Brezler so name this guy please. Get it out there.
First do not fund this. Second fund all departments on a per call basis. 300k is too much money for each of these departments. They bank a lot of the money given to them. They spend on banquets and toys for themselves. Should be a yearly audit for each. This is tax money that they spend. Oversight is needed now more than ever. Maybe it is time to close some departments down and consolidate. Every tax payer has to make hard decisions with their own budget. Maybe we need hard conservatism in the fire service.
Anonymous said...
The county needs to stop putting price tags on people's life's. Fund the station .
May 9, 2017 at 9:10 AM
I believe it is Jim Ireton, Jake Day and Rick Hoppes that has put the price tag on peoples lives. Don't blame the county.
Support the volunteers
The county needs to fund station 1
Anonymous said...
Why is our county is such a shambles if we have almost an entirely republican council?
May 8, 2017 at 8:45 PM
NEWSFLASH!! The City of Salisbury is "such a shambles" not Wicomico County. The City of Salisbury is ran by an "almost entirely" Democrat council.
Next!
Does anyone have a copy of the scathing letter about the Station 1 Volunteers that Stephen K. Brezler sent to County Executive Bob Culver??
10:27 go back to the bunk room you lowlife do nothing, I guess you are still a wet behind the ears little kid who thinks he's a fire God because he gets a paycheck. This is grown folk talk here boy, stay out of it, go dream of big fires and you coming out with a man in distress in your arms . Or getting hero awards for something that is everyday life in a real city career department. I think I hear a duck in the storm drain there should be a big juicy hero medal in it for ya. You all amuse me thumping your chests. Running around with 20 badges on your coats any more campaign ribbons than Gen. Douglass McArther .
I've been told that John Cannon has been meeting with former fire chief Stephen K. Brezler who just happens to live in Nutters Crossing.
From the Salisbury Fire Department "History" page as noted by the ***'s.
http://www.salisburyfd.com/page/history
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*On April 12, 1986, Salisbury added a new facility as Fire Station #1 opened on Beaglin Park Drive.
**The year 2001 would bring another first to the SFD. Stephen Brezler, a retired Battalion Chief from Baltimore County (MD) became the first Chief appointed from outside the ranks of the SFD. The City commissioned an evaluation of its fire service conducted by an independent consultant. The consultant in conjunction with the participation of many Department members created a strategic plan to improve the Department's service delivery. Chief Brezler began to implement many of the recommendations of the strategic plan. Chief Brezler was instrumental in the establishment of the Department's Special Operations service, formed in 2001, and designed to provide response and mitigation of hazardous materials emergencies, confined space entry and rescue and trench rescue operations.
***When Chief Brezler resigned in 2003, Deputy Chief David See was appointed as Chief of the Department.
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Imagine that a Consultant study under Chief Brezler? And guess what Chief Brezler was doing prior to becoming Salisbury's new fire chief? A Consultant! And guess what Brezler did after he resigned as Salisbury's fire chier? He went back to being a Consultant.
And guess what Jake Day and Bob Culver spent $30,000 on? A consultant! Guess who the Consultant was the got the $30,000?? Former fire chief Steve Brezler's consultant firm Tri Data!
So now we no where the problem lies with the volunteers and the City of Salisbury. A Consultant with ties to the Salisbury Fire Department and Rick Hoppes.
Do you know why Steve Brezler resigned after just 2 years as the Fire Chief for the Salisbury Fire Department? Because he was screwing over the volunteers in the Salisbury Fire Department and they forced him out of the department.
Steve Brezler was working overtime to force the volunteers out and he gave the volunteers of Station 2 and Station 1 a very hard time. Guess what the response of the volunteers from Station 2 was? To form their own volunteer fire department in the County. They were almost successful as well.
Guess what one of the recommendations of the $30,000 Fire Study was? Not to form anymore county fire stations!!! Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding!! Does that ring a bell??? It should! That study has Steve Brezler's finger prints all over it!!
Steve Brezler wrote that $30,000 Fire Study for the City of Salisbury and he has so much animosity towards the volunteers and it shows in that study. Rick Hoppes and Jake Day knew what they were doing when they used Tri Data and Bob Culver was too stupid to see what was going on. Anyone with a brain knows that studies are designed to pay people to say what you want to hear. Bob Culver was warned and he did not listen!!
John cannon will not be re elected nor will Matt or joe
Anonymous said...
"Well season firefighters"-I would assume you meant to say well seasoned firefighters... not even remotely true.
Most of them have no clue what it actually means to be a firefighter. They are t shirt wearers, nothing more.
Every time they show up on a scene they can be found outside where it's nice and safe doing nothing or somewhere doing exactly the opposite of what they should be doing.
Training, knowledge and experience? These are the people that won't train, won't respond to calls and the only fire service experience they have is recliner time in the annex.
May 9, 2017 at 10:27 AM
This sounds like a response from Brian Records.
John cannon has dug a hole he can't get out of
Guess who got promoted under Salisbury Fire Chief Stephen K. Brezler for doing absolutely nothing???
I really don't want to say it out loud but his initials are Rick Hoppes!!
Do your dam job and fund the station end of story . John dont be a coward
Anonymous Anonymous said...
10:27 go back to the bunk room you lowlife do nothing, I guess you are still a wet behind the ears little kid who thinks he's a fire God because he gets a paycheck. This is grown folk talk here boy, stay out of it, go dream of big fires and you coming out with a man in distress in your arms . Or getting hero awards for something that is everyday life in a real city career department. I think I hear a duck in the storm drain there should be a big juicy hero medal in it for ya. You all amuse me thumping your chests. Running around with 20 badges on your coats any more campaign ribbons than Gen. Douglass McArther .
May 9, 2017 at 11:25 AM
Bahahaha! So true! All those fake Hero badges they love wearing on their uniforms.
The Salisbury Fire Department is the only fire department in the country that will allow you to put in a request for your own Hero Award!!
I have one question? If the Salisbury Fire Department is a paid fire department in Salisbury then WTF are they doing responding to calls in the County?? WTH is wrong with Bob Culver and some of those County Council members??
Connect the Dots!
John Cannon, Wayne Strausburg, David Black, Eric Johnson, Stephen K. Brezler, John Cannon's son.
1) They all live in Nutters Crossing
2) David Black, Eric Johnson, Stephen K. Brezler are all connected to the Salisbury Fire Department
3) Eric Johnson, Stephen K. Brezler are/were paid firemen in Salisbury.
4) They all want a paid fire department to respond to their calls.
Letter to the Editor
I keep seeing Stephen K. Brezler's name pop up on here so I did a little digging myself and this is a few important tidbits I came up with myself.
"In early 2016 the City of Salisbury and Wicomico County entered into an agreement with TriData LLC to provide an expert, unbiased evaluation of the Fire Service in the City of Salisbury and Wicomico County. The contract stated that TriData would evaluate the level of current services and provide a financial analysis, to include:
Task 1- Collection and Review of Background Information
Task 2- Triage of Issues
Task 3- Analyze SFD coverage and Demand
Task 4- Cost Apportionment
Task 5- Draft and Final Report"
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
First question. How much did this cost each of the City and the County? What did the study cost each of them?
Fist point of clarification. The main character involved in this "Study" is behind the scenes and no one knows just how biased this "Study" is for the City of Salisbury. TriData was chosen because of this main Character and Bob Culver was duped into this contract because of his ignorance. To say the least, Jim Ireton and Rick Hoppes got over on Mr. Culver and the Wicomico County Tax Payers!
Main Character: Stephen Kerry Brezler of now Salisbury, Maryland. Former Fire Chief of the Salisbury Fire Department. Ran out by volunteers.
Look on Page (9) of this similar study done early in January 2016 for Forsyth County, North Carolina. I can't copy and paste the critical information here so I will post the link and direct to the "Qualifications" Page of the Project Manager and you can come up with your own conclusions.
https://www.co.forsyth.nc.us/Commissioners/Agendas/documents/131032331411271419.pdf
Go to page 19 of 27 pages on the actual PDF. On the "Resolution" the actual page is page 9 which continues into page 20 of 27 or Page 10 of the Resolution.
4. Key Project Team Members
Project Manager
Someone intentionally failed to disclose this key information to Bob Culver at the start of the contract. This information is extremely biased and should not be accepted. This contract should be Null and Void and a refund should be due Wicomico County.
Not only did TriData LLC and Jim Ireton and Rick Hoppes Dupe the Wicomico County Executive, TriData LLC duped Jim Ireton and the City of Salisbury as well as Bob Culver. All they had to do was show up to a couple of "Interviews" in Salisbury and Wicomico, then take one of the similar "Studies" and change the names on the final version which is saved on a Hard Drive somewhere. Easy money! Studies are like elections, they are rigged!
This information was exposed before Wicomico County agrees to the fire service agreement and Bob Culver went along with it anyway!!
We certainly do thank the volunteers that are interested in working together. It is trouble makers in the group that left station 1, that want to have their own rules. If these certain volunteers can't work together for the good of the citizens, then they need to get out, or better yet, join another volunteer fire department.
Wayne Strausburg went behind Bob Culver's back and gave the final fire service agreement to Jake Day and that is what they ended up with. Bob Culver is being controlled by Wayne Strausburg and he is too weak to fire him. Bob knows that he can not run this county without Wayne and what Wayne says, goes. When the Hell are you going to get rid of Strausburg like you promised!!
Wayne Strausburg lives in Nutters and doesn't want the volunteers to respond to his house if needed. He is too stupid that the volunteers handled the calls about 80% of the time anyway.
Cannon for executive!!
11:25am
Sorry, but this is definitely not grown folk commenting. These comments sound like they are coming from ignorant folk. Just like the other posts that show up on this site. Nothing but ignorant folk comments.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
First do not fund this. Second fund all departments on a per call basis. 300k is too much money for each of these departments. They bank a lot of the money given to them. They spend on banquets and toys for themselves. Should be a yearly audit for each. This is tax money that they spend. Oversight is needed now more than ever. Maybe it is time to close some departments down and consolidate. Every tax payer has to make hard decisions with their own budget. Maybe we need hard conservatism in the fire service.
May 9, 2017 at 11:05 AM
When did you become an expert on all 14 fire departments in this county.
Please sign your name so we know your expertise!
Your name says "independent" this means you are NOT dependent upon anyone or anything for your existence!!! So with that I say you need to self fund your new existence....
Anonymous said...
Cannon for executive!!
May 9, 2017 at 12:25 PM
BWAHAHAHA!
That's almost as funny as John Hall and Matt Holloway getting re-elected.
UH OH!! Station 6 Parsonsburg EMS is getting dispatched for a chest pain call at the Wicomico County Airport. They have to drive through Station 1's fire district to get to the Airport.
Anonymous said...
11:25am
Sorry, but this is definitely not grown folk commenting. These comments sound like they are coming from ignorant folk. Just like the other posts that show up on this site. Nothing but ignorant folk comments.
May 9, 2017 at 12:26 PM
Most of these comments are intelligent except yours. Move along now...
I think 18-A is making some of these anti-volunteer comments while he is on the clock.
Guess who worshiped and adored Steve Brezler when he was the fire chief in Salisbury??
1. Rick Hoppes
2. John Tull
3. B.R.
Guess who kissed Steve Brezler's butt and sucked up to him while he was the fire chief.
1. Rick Hoppes
2. John Tull and his in-laws Tommy and Carolyn Lewis.
3. B.R. and his parents.
Guess who got promoted? 1, 2 and 3.
12:25 pm .....bahaaaa, that's a good one. If that happened we might as well get rid of the county council, cause with all his interests in the city we know how that would go. He and Jake are good friends, you take care of me in the city, I'll take care of you in the county. That's Jakeys puppet. And I don't give a crap about this fire department bs, you all are crying and acting like a bunch of spoiled brats. Y all need to stfu cause you look stupid.
Independent I believe refers as independent from the city fire department. But I didn't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out. Wow grow up and educate yourself moron.
The county council had best start supporting those who supported them, like the county chiefs and the county firefighters association, this next election could be interesting.
John David Black
It should not be hard for them to join any other county station. Hebron, Delmar , Fruitland , princess Anne should welcome them with open arms.
How exactly are the paid firemen useless on the ambulance calls when they are medical trained? SMH
And if this really happened the people involved would have filed a report ...... again we throw the BS flag on your nonsense
Sir there is no need to sign names here. Mr Polidore allows his followers to post press releases on here knowing comments are nameless. Carry on
Anonymous said...
It should not be hard for them to join any other county station. Hebron, Delmar , Fruitland , princess Anne should welcome them with open arms.
May 9, 2017 at 3:35 PM
Why should they join those stations when they have their own station and they have had their own station/department since 1986!
Stephen K. Brezler did that fire study for the Salisbury fire Department and John Cannon knows that for a fact. They are neighbors with each other in Nutters.
John David Black is a volunteer and Station 16, but he has never really fought any fire. The volunteers at Station 16 get there when the fire is out and pretty much only have to do mop up.
The reason that David Black always supports the paid firemen is because his father and other family were paid firemen. His cousin who is Pat Andrews is a paid fireman in Salisbury. He is a nice guy to.
Joe Holloway never did support the Sheriff's Deputies or the volunteer firemen.
Ummm I'm a tax payer and I want it funded. I don't personally know one member of either fire department. What I do know is Salisbury fire department under Chief Hoppes has handled this whole thing very poorly. All of you should be ashamed of yourselves. You are supposed to be working to protect the citizens. That's what ALL of you signed on for. But instead I have seen nothing but nastiness and untruths from Chief Hoppes and the rest of you paid firemen. I have not however seen volunteer station 1 members engage in any nastiness. So take a look in the mirror all you paid firemen and decide what's really important. You being chief head honchos or the citizens being protected. You talk a good talk but actions speak louder than words! Oh and btw as a tax payer I never understood why you idiots had to take a huge fire truck out to go get coffee or your lunches. Isn't that what the kitchen at the firehouse is for?? That's MY tax money you are using and it's completely unnecessar and a perfect example of how wasteful your fire department is being run. And again I know NO ONE in the fire department. Just a tax payer giving my two cents.
I smell a Cover up! Report was generated but the chief stepped in so it wouldn't get reported to the military!
Joe Holloway should support the fire company's. The whole county council should support this station as well as all the company's.
More info from the famous bs study by Tri data, it callad for no more fire stations to be built, however the Salisbury fire chief and the boy mayor have in their budget for a new station to be built in 2018 out near Hobbs Rd. Or in front of Worwic tech in Parsonsburg district. And the yet another up north near the Delmar Fire District in 2019. Any guesses why, cause they plan on annexing in those districts and taking the territory from the volunteer stations in those respective areas. It's on the Chiefs 5 year plan. And in the budget. Count on it.
Areas that are annexed have to ask to be annexed. They are not just taken in. Or are they?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Areas that are annexed have to ask to be annexed. They are not just taken in. Or are they?
May 9, 2017 at 9:46 PM
The city has gone around to farmers who own a lot of land and asked them to annex their property. Some have even given them sweet deals or pre-annexation agreements.
The City would then ask Planning and Zoning about the property being annexed and at one time the county would have to approve or deny. If it is denied, the property would automatically be annexed in 5 years. The County needs to stop allowing Salisbury to be annexed into the city because the majority of people moved to the county for a reason. They don't want to pay double in city and county taxes. They also don't want to be associated with a crime ridden city.
Do the right thing and stop annexations.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
More info from the famous bs study by Tri data, it callad for no more fire stations to be built, however the Salisbury fire chief and the boy mayor have in their budget for a new station to be built in 2018 out near Hobbs Rd. Or in front of Worwic tech in Parsonsburg district. And the yet another up north near the Delmar Fire District in 2019. Any guesses why, cause they plan on annexing in those districts and taking the territory from the volunteer stations in those respective areas. It's on the Chiefs 5 year plan. And in the budget. Count on it.
May 9, 2017 at 7:20 PM
This is exactly correct, but they were specifically referring to no more "volunteer" stations to open in the county because they were expecting this to happening again between Station 1 and/or Station 2 just as it did in 2003 when Steve Brezler was the Salisbury Fire Chief. This is proof that Steve Brezler for Tri-Data was the mastermind behind the lastest $30,000 TriData, LLC study on the Salisbury Fire Service Agreement.
Anonymous said...
We certainly do thank the volunteers that are interested in working together. It is trouble makers in the group that left station 1, that want to have their own rules. If these certain volunteers can't work together for the good of the citizens, then they need to get out, or better yet, join another volunteer fire department.
May 9, 2017 at 12:23 PM
If they are "troublemakers that don't want to follow rules" then why would it be best to "join another volunteer fire department" as you say? Because you are a paid fireman from Salisbury that hate volunteers!! Remember you said "We?" More evidence that you are from Salisbury. Sounds like Rick Hoppes.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Joe Holloway should support the fire company's. The whole county council should support this station as well as all the company's.
May 9, 2017 at 6:11 PM
At this point most of them don't because 3 are in bed with Jake Day and have been fed misguided information.
Anonymous said...
How exactly are the paid firemen useless on the ambulance calls when they are medical trained? SMH
May 9, 2017 at 3:41 PM
Because their only "medical training" as you refer to is the fact that they are only trained as basic EMT which is USELESS! They also just stand around or at best they drive the ambulance. We can train a monkey to drive the ambulance so yes being a basic EMT and a firefighter is being clueless and useless.
Carry on!
Anonymous said...
Sir there is no need to sign names here. Mr Polidore allows his followers to post press releases on here knowing comments are nameless. Carry on
May 9, 2017 at 3:48 PM
That is Chief Polidore to you because he is the Chief of Station 1. You don't know what you are talking about.
OMG! Don't you commenters ever get tired of bashing others? The personal attacks on others just shows that you are not one to be respected.
To the 4:23AM post,
Get over yourself. He is still Mr. Polidore, no matter what he does in the fire department.
Anonymous said...
To the 4:23AM post,
Get over yourself. He is still Mr. Polidore, no matter what he does in the fire department.
May 10, 2017 at 2:14 PM
Snow Flake Alert!!
Looks like we've got another Butt Hurt Snow Flake who doesn't mind spending Other Peoples Money like a typical Democrat MORON!
Anonymous said...
Joe Holloway should support the fire company's. The whole county council should support this station as well as all the company's.
May 9, 2017 at 6:11 PM
Joe is sucking up to Eric Tyler because Station 6 Parsonsburg is in Joe's District.
Eric is going to be sorry he didn't support the Station 1 Volunteers when Rick Hoppes puts his 5th Station East of the Shorebirds Stadium. What are you going to do then ole Buddy!! You going to go crying to Joe H. again? There is nothing he can do for you because he let Salisbury annex that far out and guess what ole Buddy?? Parsonsburg is going to be annexed next and guess what ole Buddy? Parsonsburg VFD is going to be a Substation of the Salisbury Fire Department and you WON'T be the fire chief. You will be answering to Chief Hoppes and you will be called firefighter, Ole Buddy.
Anonymous said...
Ummm I'm a tax payer and I want it funded. I don't personally know one member of either fire department. What I do know is Salisbury fire department under Chief Hoppes has handled this whole thing very poorly. All of you should be ashamed of yourselves. You are supposed to be working to protect the citizens. That's what ALL of you signed on for. But instead I have seen nothing but nastiness and untruths from Chief Hoppes and the rest of you paid firemen. I have not however seen volunteer station 1 members engage in any nastiness. So take a look in the mirror all you paid firemen and decide what's really important. You being chief head honchos or the citizens being protected. You talk a good talk but actions speak louder than words! Oh and btw as a tax payer I never understood why you idiots had to take a huge fire truck out to go get coffee or your lunches. Isn't that what the kitchen at the firehouse is for?? That's MY tax money you are using and it's completely unnecessar and a perfect example of how wasteful your fire department is being run. And again I know NO ONE in the fire department. Just a tax payer giving my two cents.
May 9, 2017 at 5:28 PM
You are very observant and right on the money. Those big $1 million dollar fire trucks are used to get free coffee at Walmart every morning and throughout the day, multiple times. Those big $1 million dollar fire trucks are used to get their lunches and sometimes dinner and different restaurants throughout the city or county even if it isn't in their first due response area. Those big $1 million dollar fire trucks are used to get their dinners from the stores like Food Lion and Giant/Acme. Those big $1 million dollar fire trucks are used to get their mail at the post offices. Those big $1 million dollar fire trucks are used to pay their bills at various locations. Those big $1 million dollar fire trucks are used to chase ambulance calls whether they were dispatched or not. Those big $1 million dollar fire trucks are used to respond to false fire alarms in other districts when they weren't dispatched. Those big $1 million dollar fire trucks are used to free lance on any call they want to respond on. The only difference is the volunteers aren't allowed to use those big $1 million dollar fire trucks for the same purposes. If the volunteers did what the career firemen did they would be chastised, written up and demoted. The volunteers have always been discriminated against by the paid firemen, especially Rick Hoppes.
Anonymous said...
Stephen K. Brezler did that fire study for the Salisbury fire Department and John Cannon knows that for a fact. They are neighbors with each other in Nutters.
May 9, 2017 at 4:42 PM
Then why isn't Bob Culver and the rest of the County Council calling Foul over this??
As a citizen who knows what is going on with the actions, lies and corruption of the Salisbury Fire Department I tried to reason with Councilman Matt Holloway and he called me a liar. I am done with him and I will spend every nickel I have to support his opponent.
Anonymous said...
And if this really happened the people involved would have filed a report ...... again we throw the BS flag on your nonsense
May 9, 2017 at 3:43 PM
HUH?? What are you talking about?
Anonymous said...
How exactly are the paid firemen useless on the ambulance calls when they are medical trained? SMH
May 9, 2017 at 3:41 PM
Hahahaha! Medically trained? They can't do anything except maybe put a bandaid on a Boo Boo! I paramedic is a highly trained field provider with at degree. A basic EMT isn't anything but an ambulance driver.
Did that answer your question? SMH
Anonymous said...
It should not be hard for them to join any other county station. Hebron, Delmar , Fruitland , princess Anne should welcome them with open arms.
May 9, 2017 at 3:35 PM
This is an obvious attempt of a paid fireman bashing the Hebron, Delmar, Fruitland and Princess Anne fire departments. Cheap shot there Moron, no wonder the volunteers in the county can't stand you self absorbed idiots.
Anonymous said...
I think 18-A is making some of these anti-volunteer comments while he is on the clock.
May 9, 2017 at 12:39 PM
Do you mean Jeff Simpson and John Tull's boy Rob Frampton?
I heard Station 6 Parsonsburg EMS is getting dispatched for a chest pain call at the Wicomico County Airport the other day so I got the facts and checked the times. This was a patient in the terminal at the airport suffering from chest pain.
I have a couple of concerns with this because chest pain is typically a cardiac event and requires quick medical attention.
1) Did the ARFF crew at the airport respond to this medical emergency?
2) Who is closer Salisbury Paramedics or the EMS crew from Parsonsburg?
3) Can Parsonsburg guarantee a Paramedic on every call?
4) Can Parsonsburg guarantee a Paramedic on every call without one coming from Pittsville?
5) Would the Salisbury Independent #1 fire and EMS crew had a quicker response?
Parsonsburg should never have been given the airport. They have to drive through the Salisbury fire district to get to the airport and it took 15 minutes for the ambulance to get to the airport and even longer to reach that patient. Not sure of the outcome of that patient, but if it was a nonbreathing subject they would have died waiting on Parsonsburg. If the chest pain developed into a cardiac arrest then that patient would have died waiting on Parsonsburg to get there.
Parsonsburg should have never been given temporary status as first due for the airport. The Station 1 volunteers handled those calls most of the time and did a great job.
The only reason Parsonsburg got the Airport is because Jimmie Boi had a hissy fit and threatened the county with the pre-nuclear option. Now that is over and the territory should be given back to the Station 1 Volunteers.
Anonymous said...
You idiots quit. Why should the taxpayers fund your freaking hobby? You guys had funding, a facility and equipment. You blew it.. bye bye.
May 8, 2017 at 8:37 PM
Those idiots quit? What idiots quit? The Station 1 Volunteers did not quit. They gave the city notice that as of July 1, 2017 they were separating the association with the City which was long overdue. They were not quitting, they were just leaving the umbrella of the City which was a smart move. Rick Hoppes took that opportunity to lock the volunteers out of their own station and tried to have them locked up. Hoppes, Records, Darrin Scott and other paid firemen were heckling and harassing the volunteers which proves they are unprofessional.
A real mayor would not have allowed this to happen.
A real mayor would have fired Rick Hoppes on the spot.
This is another black eye for the Salisbury Fire Department and good reason to fire Rick Hoppes as the leader of the Salisbury Fire Department.
Jake Day is not a real mayor. Jake Day is a fake Mayor. Jake Day has been on here making comments. He has been childish getting on Brian Records and Tri Townsends FB pages liking their comments as they were attack the volunteers with lies, stupid comments and childish and immature pictures.
People have been fired for making the same kinds of jokes on Social Media, but we have a mayor and a council vice president(Muir Boda) making childish and immature likes and comments on those FB pages.
Would some one please run for mayor next time, even the village idiot could be a better mayor than the fool that's here now. I knew him in school , he's a spoiled brat that never had to work for anything in his posh life. Thinks he is important and all that, fact is he's a snowflake, loves pictures of himself, it's a wonder there aren't billboards with his goofy face on them saying . Welcome to slumsbury, a city run by corruption and ignorance. And with all that's going on in the fire dept, omg what a laughingstock, seems career has run the volunteers off...not good. The problem is the dumb ass fire chief, why it it only happening here ? The other 12 or 14 or whatever departments don't have this problem, what's the difference here, a career component that thinks they are so much better than the tick volunteers, so I guess they hate all volunteer fire departments. So common sense says keep the career in the city because the volunteers in the county don't want them. Separate the combination stations and re set the boundaries, volunteers run anything outside the city limits and career stays inside the city limits.
What is a tick ? Why do the career people call all volunteers ticks ? Someone explained it earlier they said it means totally incapable of containing knowledge. Is this true because I have seen that reference a lot on here lately ? Why would they call each other names if there is this so called brotherhood ? It seems that the career don't like or want to with volunteers. That's a shame.
May 11, 2017 at 6:38 AM
As a citizen who knows what is going on with the actions, lies and corruption of the Salisbury Fire Department I tried to reason with Councilman Matt Holloway and he called me a liar. I am done with him and I will spend every nickel I have to support his opponent
I saw that somehow they paid the Daily Slime to run a story on their farm operation. ICE should pay them a visit. That family has dirty hands and it isn't from farming.
He is part of the Good Old Boys Network and votes accordingly.
Lol remember the county residents have to approve there house to be annexed you paid fag.
Can someone explain what annexed means in regards to the fire depts? I keep hearing that for Parsonsburg, but not sure if they just mean the fire dept or the whole area? I have this fear that one day, perhaps sooner than later I will be paying city taxes for my 10+acres in Parsonsburg, just so they can have a paid fire dept...
Station 1 EMS (Paid EMS providers) was dispatched at 5 am today's date(5/14/2017) to 301 or 801 Crystal Place? in Granby's Run for chest pain. They slept through the call and had to be re-alerted. They used the portable radio to respond when they woke up and they were acknowledged at 5:05 am. They arrived at 5:10am. It doesn't take 5 minutes to drive to Granby Run from Station 1 because it is only a couple of blocks away. You can see the houses from the front pad. Why didn't the fire trucks respond on that call since it was a chest pain call?? Oh that's right, it was 5 o'clock in the morning and they needed the last 2 hours of sleep for their second jobs. Rick Hoppes needs to be fired for allowing these clowns to constantly sleep through calls over and over again while the citizens in Salisbury and Wicomico County suffer. All the while attacking the Station 1 volunteers and claiming that a paid fire service is better than the service offered by volunteers. These paid clowns need to be moved to 8 hour shifts with absolutely no sleeping just like Ocean City did.
Jake Day you are a Piece of Sh!t and you need to step down for your P!ss Poor leadership!
I couldn't post then because it gave me this message. I think it has something to do with moving the articles to your "week in review."
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Anonymous said...
Can someone explain what annexed means in regards to the fire depts? I keep hearing that for Parsonsburg, but not sure if they just mean the fire dept or the whole area? I have this fear that one day, perhaps sooner than later I will be paying city taxes for my 10+acres in Parsonsburg, just so they can have a paid fire dept...
May 14, 2017 at 9:16 AM
Annexed means that the city, such as what Salisbury does annexes land in the county. Land where the tax payers only pay county taxes. Once you are annexed into the city of Salisbury they own you and now you pay Salisbury City taxes as well as Wicomico County taxes. Then you have to pay a high water and sewer bill to pay off that failed $144 Million Dollar sewage plant.
Once you are in the city you have to wait for the Salisbury Police Department to respond if you need them. You no longer get the services of the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office or the Maryland State Police. Then you have to worry about the wicked paid firemen responding to your emergency and then they let you die. Is that what you want?
If the County and / or city government supports this so called new fire department, it shows they are irresponsible and lack common sense. The fire fighters either needed to learn to get along, come up with a workable solution go go else .... I am TAXED to DEATH, everybody wants government money... THE GOVERNMENT IS BROKE!!!!! Quite asking the government to pay for EVERYTHING.... It seems as though some people does not know where government gets their money
456 No way do I want that. In all seriousness, I can not even get Verizon to run a landline to my home, I seriously doubt the city would run city water and sewer, then down my very long driveway. It would be the least cost effective thing ever.
Now on the other side of Rt 50, that area of Parsonsburg, I could see it, however they would have a lot of convincing to do. People live out here for a reason.
I'm a volunteer FF/paramedic in the county, however, I'm a career paramedic for a county EMS system. I too would be in favor of a county EMS system. Not for the same reason you are though. A county EMS system would actually give its providers an adequate retirement plan, decent pay, and good benefits. This is the reason many paramedics who live in Wicomico work elsewhere. The county only gives around $160k to each county station for paid EMS, EMS equipment, and ambulances. I'm not including the SFD as there's no way they would partake in a county EMS system, nor would Delmar. So that leaves 9 other county stations. When you add those EMS stipends up, it's only $1.44m. To put it into perspective, nearby counties with 1/3rd the population have county EMS systems that operate on a budget that's twice that amount.
Not all paramedics have a degree. And I've worked with some pretty dumb paramedics. So of which I wouldn't let do CPR on my pet goldfish. But then again if you had a single clue of which you speak you would be talking out of the other end of your body...
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