brianm1

I too try to stay out of this, but have to step in when false information is said to serve one's agenda Alpineruner, You couldn't be any further from the truth. Lets be honest here about how this incident would have been "if the mayors plan had been enacted" First, this particular call was around 8:00 Pm. According to the mayors plan there would have been only two paid personnel responding not three. More importantly did we forget what was wrong with the old system? If the mayors plan was enacted this incident would have been no different than that typical of prior to 2008. With two paid guys staffing the firehouse do you really think those three guys would have been staffing the firehouse!! If TOR members weren't promised paid jobs, and if there wasn't a rat race to go to calls, lots of calls to put individual job seeking members first in line for a job, do you think that those three guys would have likely been staffing the firehouse?? Do you really think that if the mayors plan was enacted, the off duty paid guys of NSFD would be staffing firehouses and responding to calls??? Prior to 2008 how many out of the roughly 44 paid drivers in BFD, GFD, TOR & LRFD would respond to calls as volunteers when they were off duty? Agendas Huh? If there where truly enough volunteers to consistently provide coverage then why do they need to have two- three paid guys staffing the firehouse?? If there are plenty of volunteers why not just a single paid driver like the old, old days?

It's scumbags like this that are a disgrace to the fire service. Here is someone who not only holds rank (Assistant chief) but is also a senior member of his department. If he is the kind of person who would officially submit a letter like this which is full of lies and rumors, then what do you think he is telling the other members of his dept?? I can only imagine the brainwashing that’s he does! Especially to newer and younger members. And people wonder why there is a so called rift between volunteer and paid firefighters here in Stamford! What a joke it is and how unfortunate it is that we have people like this spoiling and brainwashing what would probably be good willed firefighters who otherwise might have truly had public safety as there #1 concern!! There’s no need to write a rebuttal, the BOR knows the deal. Are people like this the reason the system in Stamford is so mest up? Or are people like this holding rank and titles as a result of things being so mest up?

Cogs, You just have the right answer to everything don't you. If the situation was different and Pavia decided to change the charter, deal with the law suites and totally abolish the volunteers it would be a done deal, yet I'm sure you would be all over the forums ramping about it. You want everyone to just simply accept the appointment of Bobby Valentine, and accept this crapy fire plan. Why? You say because "At this point it doesn't really matter because he's already been appointed" . So what your telling me is that evan though Valentine has absolutely no credentials and is very likely to be hundreds of miles away in the case of a major emergency or disaster, that people's concerns aren't valid and don't matter because he's already been appointed. You spend so much time ranting on these forums and you have all the answers to everything. Maybe Pavia should have appointed you instead of Valentine!

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