On Edgerton Fire plans to hire full-time chiefs

Posted on October 12 at 3:13 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

the fire department did have fire and rescue at one point. if you know so much about the efd then what did we trade in to help with the money for e78? as i recall it was the rescue ambulence that we no longer use because curtis is here. as for positives that curtis has brought to edgerton is 1. an ambulence 2. crews from madison or milwaukee when edgerton doesnt have enough people to cover 3. a ride-a-long program to the high school. its not that curtis hasnt done anything for edgerton they have there not the best company in the world but there not the worse. also im really happy edgerton is getting full timers itll bring great changes to the EFD. great job demrow and the rest of the firefighters for thinking about your communities and how to better them.

On Edgerton Fire plans to hire full-time chiefs

Posted on October 6 at 11:23 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

first off a lot of you have no clue what your talking about. curtis is a private ambulence out of milwaukee. edgerton got rid of there ambulence so curtis took it over because the city needs an ambulence. curtis is a terrible company to work for and that is why edgerton has had a few EMTs quit. It has not been a lot like everyone is making it to seem. The fire department getting full timers is a great thing for the city. Demrow and Beckwith are amazing people and great firefighters, why do you think they were voted chiefs? also as for the edgerton 3 ONE OF THEM IS ON THE FIRE DEPARTMENT NOW. The two edgerton fire fighters who are now full timers in janesville are the two people who you would want coming to save you. Walton and Marrio are amazing firefighters and paramedics. Edgerton Curtis is not a paramedic service which means all that schooling they went to to get there EMT-P was useless because they couldnt use there skills they had to run as an EMT-I not EMT-P. To get a full time Fire/EMS job is extremely hard so to rip on those two for doing that is not only uncalled for its the most disrespectful thing you could possibly do. People just expect firefighters/emts to be there and to help no matter if there on call or not, driving by or just happen to be there. We do not have to but guess what we do it. We give hours and hours to calls plus the hours of training plus the hours of schooling for what? You people to sit here and say "o we dont need that, thats a waste of money" Well guess what with the city of Edgerton, the 4 townships, and 10 miles of I90 that we cover needs it. I dont care who you are a CEO of a huge company or president of GM firefighters/emts are here for you. You dont care or dont want to take the time to save lives so we do. Next week is fire safety week guess what us non needed firefighters do. we take time off our other jobs to go talk to YOUR children to teach them things that you as parents dont. We bring all of our stuff even our o2 tanks and we dress up for these children, why you ask because fire fighters look scary in uniform. We do this because maybe your child will cry seeing us crawling around the circle but as soon as we take that mask off and we show them that we are just dressed up it makes a huge difference. Us firefighters save lives because you wont. Think about that next time you decide to rip on a firefighter/emt there going to be the ones you count on to save you.

On Edgerton Fire to hire full-time chiefs

Posted on October 3 at 1:13 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

first off you have no idea what your talking about long time ago. It was NOT the fire department fighting for those 3 people to get there benifits and such back it was those 3 people. Also only one of those 3 where attending meetings and calls during that time. As for the communities that depend on the fire department it is not a joke this is one of the best things that could happen to them. Now there will be faster response times for the FD which means the patients will have someone there to take care of them faster or when the engine rolls there will be a fire command viechle on scene to tell the engine company what is on scene so the brave volunteers will have a little bit of a heads up before they get on scene. so as for you why dont you try and become a firefighter and see how hard it is or time consuming before you run your mouth about things you dont know.

or think about it this way:

Your house is on fire your 2 year old is stuck in there room and your out of the house already. Who are you going to want there as fast as possible? Correct answer is the Fire Department. Your not going to go in the house when its on fire but the firefighter will and by having full timers at the station means they will be there a lot faster.

On Darien firefighters want chief to take action against troublesome employee

Posted on August 30 at 10:18 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

how many on here even are ff or emts? probably 2 or 3 including myself. its a tough job and every dept has that one person that thinks there better then everyone else for some reason. look at the big depts. what certs do you need to be on one of them? a lot more then this boss guy has. he needs to give it up hes not doing anything for darien at all. hes putting ppl in to harm insted of preventing it. give it up boss and let the real fire men/woman do there job. also chief retire your dept diserves someone who knows how to be a chief.

On Darien firefighters want chief to take action against troublesome employee

Posted on August 29 at 2:01 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

sounds like darien needs to get some new policies. do you have sops and dept guidelines for these situations? looks like boss thinks hes all that to me. if he was this great A.C. and amazing fire fighter that he can be in charge of a scene from miles away and do a better job then someone on scene he should be working for City of Janesville or Madison were he can really be the big man. Tell him to get off the box. Honestly the five that quit should be proud of themselves and hopefully more do until they take care of him and the chief sense hes to scared to do it himself. Fire figheters have enough to deal with they dont need the drama in the fire house to.