It pains me to say this, but raise my taxes a few cents if it means receiving fast and professional service. If I'm not mistaken, the county pays for the liability insurance for all fire/rescue departments. That also means that the county has a direct responsibility to correct any deficiencies that are identified in the system. When response levels drop below a standard that's been set, this becomes a risk management problem for the insurer. One of two things can happen with this scenario; 1- correct the problem, 2- raise the insurance rate to force the hand to fix the...
You make no sense, how can you blame Chief Yew for any of this. You are right about one point. The blame lies with the volunteers. I was an active and dedicated volunteer for 35 years, and I have always said that the volunteers were their own worst enemies. No training, lack of of training, ego's, attitudes, good ol'e boys, and the list goes on. Fiefighting and EMS started becoming a profession years ago, but to many still feel it is a game. Nothing has been taken away from the volunteers, they have been giving it away for years. I...
You are so right, Been There! What volunteers get out of their "service" is a sense of power and importance that they have not been able to reap from legitimate jobs. Witness Shenandoah Farms Volunteer Fire Department and its apologists. Thank Gawd my house does not fall in their purview, but if it did, hey, I don't want some concealed-gun-toting loudmouth appearing at my emergency! I have fabulous homeowners' insurance, paid people to attend my ailing loved ones... why would I want a borderline (at best) criminal privy to the more than $4,800 worth of DIVING equipment that went missing...
Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of good volunteers. Around 99% of the paid providers I know started as volunteers. Only in the last couple of years have some of the volunteer agencies started doing background checks on new members. A volunteer system is doable, but it takes a lot of hard work....
OMG.. I knew yrs ago this was going to happen. People this is what needs to happen. We need the paid staff truth be known. But we need the money to pay for them right. So if BACK woods thinking Woodstock and the county would allow business to come here. Whether it being for once a nice place to eat. Because GOD knows we have nothing in Woodstock. You won’t to go out to eat at a nice place you have to go to Winchester or Harrisonburg. But that’s another story for another day. Or allowing something, anything, other then...
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