There isn't a person on earth with a drivers license that believes someone can ride on the front bumper of a motor vehicle. In my opinion, this could be considered criminal as this is a clear violation of the law.
While it was a horrific situation, while we all hope and pray for the Firefighters recovery, this cannot be called an accident and the public should NOT allow this incident to slip under the rug as a so called accident. The Wicomico County Sheriff's Office, Salisbury Police and Maryland State Police should file charges against all parties involved. OSHA should also be on top of this matter.
It is what it is.
ReplyDeleteYes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,yes and finally yes. Why you say? Who is going to be the ones paying for this VERY AVOIDABLE fubar? The tax payers within Wicomico county.
ReplyDeleteTruth!
ReplyDeleteThis event wasn't an accident, it wasn't an unfortunate happenstance, it was a direct result of ignorance of the most basic of safety rules, completely preventable. It never should have happened.
One might consider that the injured party, a young person in SFD fire service training, could have easily been killed in this horrible piece of foolishness, run over by four wheels of a nearly 20,000 pound piece of equipment, a piece of equipment that had no business being used for what it was at the time, placing blue reflectors on the roadway to mark the locations of fire hydrants.
This cannot be smoothed over by a few choice, soft, pandering words from the mayor or fire chief. This is an event for which true accountability must be had.
time for an OSHA inspection.
ReplyDeleteEven add MSFA to that inspection since their is some safety equipment required by then that isn't even on their equipment!
DeleteGross negligence possibly as well. Yes, I know what it means and you should google it before making yourself sound foolish.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that there isn't an MSP traffic investigation.
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to look at those blue reflectors the same way anymore. For me, they're going to reflect stupidity and waste.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I tried correcting them numerous times on here. That is why public safety no longer uses the terminology of MVA or motor vehicle accident, accident, car accident, etc. It is negligence.
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ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that there isn't an MSP traffic investigation.
September 5, 2017 at 12:58 PM
They requested the Sheriff's Office for some reason. I thought MSP handled calls for the SPD when appropriate?
It WILL be called an accident, after several months of "investigation" and no one will be charged, of blamed. That is how self-policing organizations do things.
ReplyDeleteOSHA's budget is being slashed. They can't afford to investigate this.
ReplyDeleteShame on you, a man could have died.
ReplyDeleteWhat safety equipment is not on their fire engines that is required? I'm curious
ReplyDeleteHaha ask David Black he is on the inspection committee and was supposed to be one of the ones inspecting station 13's equipment for MSFA. Shouldn't he know if he is an inspector?
DeleteIs the life or limb of a volunteer firefighter worth the few extra hours of road time for a piece of fire equipment to get the department more money? It sounds like blood money to me.
ReplyDeleteWhat in the hell was this expensive piece of equipment being used in this capacity for in the first place. A pickup truck would have served the purpose just as well. What if there had been a fire somewhere that this truck needed to respond to, tearing out of a neighborhood to respond someone else may have been injured.
ReplyDeleteThen just dumb sitting on the bumper of a moving vehicle.
Lets hope they don't do like the zoo has and fire people who are injured on the job.Salisbury is shady as hell.
ReplyDeleteOh and all the crybabies on the other blog are complaining that you are trashing the fire department-wrong! You are just saying what everyone else thinks,that this is negligence.Nobody on that blog has the stones to speak up about anything,hence why you have so many hits,you are not afraid of controversy,hell you thrive on it.Thanks for telling the stories no one else will touch.
Lets not forget the District Attorney's office. It's one thing for law enforcement to investigate this. But if the DA's office won't prosecute it, it's all for naught. I say convene a grand jury. Let the courts get involved and I bet a lot of the shenanigans by the SFD and city government will stop.
ReplyDeleteI wish the Fire Chief and Mayor keep saying the injured firefighter is doing well after surgery.....that is a crock! Which surgery?? He had had many and more coming. All they think about is their image not the poor boy and his family. I think karma is coming their way!!
ReplyDelete3:31 PM, They use that expensive piece of equipment for everything, i.e., joy riding, getting lunch, putting out little blue markers, etc., etc., etc. Makes me absolutely sick every time I see it riding up and down the road going nowhere, just out riding for the day.
ReplyDeleteYou keep forgetting that the apparatus is staffed and it and its full crew are ready and able to respond from anywhere they happen to be. Whether it's getting dinner, getting lunch, going to training, community service events or work details like the hydrant puck project.
Delete3:331 PM, Only in Salisbury, MD USA does that happen. Other fire companies know to leave the expensive equipment in the fire house where it belongs until it is needed for guess what, a FIRE.
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ReplyDelete3:331 PM, Only in Salisbury, MD USA does that happen. Other fire companies know to leave the expensive equipment in the fire house where it belongs until it is needed for guess what, a FIRE.
September 5, 2017 at 9:03 PM:
You are so, so wrong. Everyone, including firefighters, know that letting a piece of equipment just sit there for extended periods of time, then jumping in it for an emergency, is the worst way to find out something doesn't work. Just sitting there is hard on a vehicle, including firetrucks. Seals become dried out, on pumps, engines, and brakes, if they are not used regularly, by responding to emergencies, or regular use. Part of any routine maintenance on heavy equipment is regular use and inspection. You don't want to find out something doesn't work when, guess what, there's a FIRE. All fire departments take their equipment out for road and equipment tests when there is no emergency, not just Salisbury.