Comments on: County Fire Chief Resigns

By: Not a FireFighter

Not a FireFighter — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:24:58 +0000

The normal Escambia County Drama. Rinaldi had such a power trip that it finally caught up to him. It is a shame though that Edwards has to pay the price for the incompitence of others.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:26:50 +0000

My previous station house was a combo department, you have too have the right people in the right positions to make the system work. Running a combo department is very difficult with many challenges, it takes time and lots of hard work. The key is to make everyone part of the team, paid or unpaid.

Good Luck brothers and sisters

-Joe

“Firefighters for Christ”

By: dunno it

dunno it — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:37:51 +0000

two sides my foot!

The bad guys run the show here, and everybody knows it, it’s just that the
trash in this town like it that way!

The bad guys in this government out number the good, and they just plain
run them out!

By: jj

jj — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:37:28 +0000

It was not wise to combine Public Safety under one roof. EMS needs to have one Manager and Escambia Fire needs to have its on Chief as it was prior to August 2009 . It is hard for one person to oversee all of Escambia County in both Fire and Ambulance services since insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and private pay keep the EMS side going and our taxes by a whole keep the fire service going. House Insurance doesn’t cover paying for the fire service being called out like automobile, house, and private insurances pay for EMS. Our Fire taxes go up because of the Fire Service not EMS. EMS gets very limited amout of the piece of pie you see every October 1st after budget time.

By: stuart

stuart — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:44:20 +0000

There are some in NE that are very happy to see this man go.

Something about two sides to every story

By: Escambia Alabama Fireman

Escambia Alabama Fireman — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:09:03 +0000

Why Not Let BAT 1 Run The County Jim Does a Great Job

By: thanks

thanks — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:08:55 +0000

How much money and time will be paying to find a new one? Tax dollars at work.

By: Firefighter

Firefighter — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:38:57 +0000

As I know that as Firefighter, Escambia County has so many issue and problems with the fire service for the past few years. It should not be up to the county directors or commisoner. Everything should be taken care by Executive Fire Chief who oversee all District Chief to maitain everything, have meeting, and bring up ideas to make change in the county to make it much better but the county commisoner or directors does not want to do that.

By: thats ridiculous

thats ridiculous — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:43:02 +0000

Thats a SHAME! He was a good chief and knew what he was doing.

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:33:12 +0000

I smell smoke. And you know what they say about that….