FIRE SERVICE

[Anonymous]

Let's get real here, there need to be some major changes in the fire services, when all other county employees are off for a holiday, the shift workers has to work that day with no compensation, it you are a salary employee and have overtime how are you suppose to get rid of it in a 2 week period. Lexington needs to think about getting a Union started in the county.

[Anonymous]

you post something like that. Where are you from anyway? You want our public employees in a union. Damn, you must really have plenty of money to spend on taxes.

[Anonymous]

For those of you that keep talking about what we need to do and everything like that, you need to take a step back and see where the fire service was 2 years ago. The fire service has almost doubled its paid firefighter. The equipment the county get today is up todate and better than alot of the couties around. If you think that the county can just say we need more firefighters and hire them you must have plenty of money you are willing to pay when the county has to jack taxes up to cover the salaries. Increasing personel takes time, and i think the county had done a great job in the amount they have increased over the past 2 years and the amount that is in the budget to be increased in the coming year.

Again take a minute and look at what we had, and what we have now and be proud to be apart of the county that is willing to grow along with the population.

[Anonymous]

hey look at what had to happen two years ago to get the
'countyfire service" ie the 9 men in charge to fund the increase in paid fire-fighters and fire equipment-------1 fine young mans death-------if the great 9 wise men sit around for the next death maybe then the funding will be found for ems or s.o. keep their willing workers and hire new ones to hit the bricks------whoops maybe ems is about to get the proper funding and equipment--another fine young man has died or was it 2 or possibly more in the last 6 weeks. someone is starting to ask a lot of questions

[Anonymous]

howdy

[Anonymous]

What's the deal? Hiring firefighter/paramedics in Chapin.

[Anonymous]

is that legal? and if it is why cant the paid firefighters work part time for ems or ems work part time for fire

[Anonymous]

Why is it that fire service first responders cannot get flue shots? They are usually the first poeple on scene and sometimes in a confined space with patients for a period of time, shouldn't they be able to receive the shots just like EMS? :???: :mad:

[Anonymous]

Why is it that fire service first responders cannot get flue shots? They are usually the first poeple on scene and sometimes in a confined space with patients for a period of time, shouldn't they be able to receive the shots just like EMS? :???: :mad:

Some EMS didn't get the shots either?!?!

[Anonymous]

H is that you i heard you got one of those soft jobs i guess it pays to cry

[Anonymous]

who can blam those guys for taking the job in chapin? Hayden , Wayne &
tyler are three of the best medics I have ever worked with ,they all know their job and their damn good at it . And all of you complaining it sounds like someone wishes it would have been them. Bad news it was not you so get over it.MY BOYS ARE ALL GREAT MEDICS AND I MISS WORKING WITH THEM. SO to finish my statement long live FAIRFIELD.


YES , JUST SO YOU KNOW FOR SURE ITS ME SPANKY SEIBERT

Have a great day.

[Anonymous]

Kudo's to Lexington Co EMS with starting a Paramedic/FF program. This will be the wave of the future. Ems and Fire working hand in hand. It worked pretty well for, well pretty much 85% of the rest of the USA. I think it started in 1972!

WOW welcome to 1990 Lexington County! It's going to Be a Strange Year!

Maybe the next thing that will happen is the tax payers in the county will get rid of the $15 per call Volly and pay a Fireman a yearly wage!

WOW welcome to 1918 Lexington County!

[Anonymous]

so, when is the fireman/policeman going to come in to effect

[Anonymous]

just to let you know in the ems mag it says only about 12% is fire/para so how you got that big% it makes you wonder about the rest of your post

[Anonymous]

what fireman/policeman? :idea:

[Anonymous]

A BIG THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!! to Sonya and Bobby on unit 5 12/3/04 with the child entraped on the school bus between the seats( YES THATS WHAT I SAID).Sonya you did a great job trying to keep him calm wile we cut the seat apart to get him out :)

[Anonymous]

Maybe the next thing that will happen is the tax payers in the county will get rid of the $15 per call Volly and pay a Fireman a yearly wage!


You are an idiot. I hope you do not live in Boiling Springs. The "$15 a call vollys" are all you've got in some places. And if you want 9 paid firefighters per shift, per station(which is the only way to safely fight any decent sized fire), then I suggest that you get very rich and foot the bill yourself, because you will find that no one else is willing to hire and pay firefighters anything close to what they deserve.

[Anonymous]

well if they can pay the VOLLy's $15.00 per call, then i suggest that up the pay for the fireman

[Anonymous]

i would rather do without than have boiling springs

[Anonymous]

i agree with the OP i think Lexington County is royally screwed up. the people that want to sit around and bs in the fire house all day praying that they don't catch a call get to keep their jobs while those that are willing to be killed in the line of duty get the option to resign or get fired all b/c they allegedly didn't have a legitimate GED that has to have the Governor's seal of approval. RR made that mistake about 5 yrs ago and nobody in the fire service had the balls to stand up for a real man. so i think everyone in Lex. County needs to stand up for what's right and let the right man for the job keep it. also SLED that's another joke b/c they headed up the investigation and it took them over a year to come up with an "unsubstantial amount of evidence to convict". even after all this the individual obtained another GED certificate and was still not reinstated into the force or even allowed to become a volunteer. so you people make me sick when all you have to complain about is volleys getting $15 a call and why can't ems join with firefighters. why don't you complain about what matters and not who makes more or who is more certified to do what. the comment about SLED was directed at those involved not the entire SLED force b/c i appreciate everything my local fire/ems/ and police do for me.

[Anonymous]

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 6:13 pm Post subject:

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i would rather do without than have boiling springs




awwww... whats the matter, ashamed that a group of 18 year olds are closer to manhood than you will ever be capable of? Boiling springs and stations like it (fairveiw, pelion, edmund)just to name a few, have dedicated volunteers, people who VOLUNTARILY risk their lives everytime that tone breaks. They dont have to, they just do. So I hope that wherever it is that you live has alot of guys (not just 3 a shift) who get paid to save your sorry ass if you happen to get a faulty wire in your home. :D

[Anonymous]

no - fairview, edmund, and pelion actually know what is going on.... i've seen BS in action on entrapments and fires....scary -

[Anonymous]

i agree with the OP i think Lexington County is royally screwed up. the people that want to sit around and bs in the fire house all day praying that they don't catch a call get to keep their jobs while those that are willing to be killed in the line of duty get the option to resign or get fired all b/c they allegedly didn't have a legitimate GED that has to have the Governor's seal of approval. RR made that mistake about 5 yrs ago and nobody in the fire service had the balls to stand up for a real man. so i think everyone in Lex. County needs to stand up for what's right and let the right man for the job keep it. also SLED that's another joke b/c they headed up the investigation and it took them over a year to come up with an "unsubstantial amount of evidence to convict". even after all this the individual obtained another GED certificate and was still not reinstated into the force or even allowed to become a volunteer. so you people make me sick when all you have to complain about is volleys getting $15 a call and why can't ems join with firefighters. why don't you complain about what matters and not who makes more or who is more certified to do what. the comment about SLED was directed at those involved not the entire SLED force b/c i appreciate everything my local fire/ems/ and police do for me.

Ah c'mon Hinge...tell us how you really feel. :lol:

[Anonymous]

i've seen BS in action on entrapments and fires....scary -

What's so scary about a group of people standing in a huddle in the front yard while the other stations do all the work?

[Anonymous]

ok, I was using BS as an example originally. But my POINT was about the outlying stations who would not survive without qualified volunteers. My point was that the moron who thinks that you can pay enough people to work as often and as willingly as that many volunteers is a nutcase. That is not to say that the paid guys work any less passionately than the volunteers, just that to truly make a difference, Firefighters need all the help they can get.

[Anonymous]

Agreed - the volunteers are an important part. But we need to focus on QUAILTY not QUANITY. Any idiot can come sit at the station and make 15 dollars a call- but let's get real. Out of our volunteer force, how many are interior? Out of those, how many know how to really fight fire ? Only some of the ones who have been around a while. I know volunteers who are officers at certian departments that have NEVER fought interior fire. That's not to say they suck or anything, but if they were offered a paid job, they would be awsome firefighters b/c they have put forth the time and effort to get where they are at.
Look - Stanly Shumpert and Charles Rucker run the best volunteer departments in the county. Pelion's not far behind thanks to VanTruesdale (who will be leavind soon :( ). Wanna know why? Because they 1) care, 2) are trained and have experience, and 3) have good people in those departments who want to learn and care. Gilbert and the Creek are in there too, but some have a long ways to go.

As far as the comment about BS, well, what can you say? Anybody who has ever operated at a fire with them knows what the deal is without saying. I mean--- Moblie Home Fire with kids entrapped -and I quote--
" T44 to E81 - Do you want me to go ahead and pull a line or wait on you?"

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

hey - you forgot the entrapment in front of white knoll when they didn't know how to run a hurst tool. edmund had to cut the girl out while bs firemen ran around all crazy. and then bs wouldn't drive the ems unit to the lz because they didnt feel comfortable doiing it. but they feel comfortable driving firetrucks.

[Anonymous]

Pelion at the top of the firefighting ranks ????? I dont think so, they have people who are scared to go interior, they have a moronic idiot from the wonderful city of columbia, they have a chief that has run 1 call in 10 years, No Leadership...Equals No Talent...Lexington county should just over take that station and run it with their own people because there doin a piss poor job at it now...Except for Danny..He is cool

[Anonymous]

Why is it taking so long to hire the A/O and F/F positions that have been open for several months now??????? But overnight so many promotions have been made in the Glass House & Sheriff Dept. Don't we need these first line positions filled before anymore office jobs???

[Anonymous]

Why is it taking so long to hire the A/O and F/F positions that have been open for several months now???????

When have they ever filled a position in a speedy manner?