[Vision2020] Fwd: Moscow fire chief denies drug cover-up

[Anonymous Opinion]

Donovan,

The investigation at this point should be made at the personal integrities
for the command officers. The article in the Lewiston Tribune made that
very clear. It had a lot of double speak and finger pointing. They were
essentially agreeing with the complainants then at the same time, blaming
them for the result of this being brought to the attention of the public.

If the woman in possession of the drugs had a prescription, she would have
not been asked to take a drug test. She could have easily explained that it
was rightfully hers...but instead she admitted and claimed it was
oxycodone, and willingly dumped it. If she had the right to have oxycodone
she would have fought throwing it away.

Evidence is "tainted" because the officers in charge did not come to the
station to address the problem. They asked the firefighters who found the
drugs to deal with the situation. If those officers truly believed it could
have been explosive or hazardous, then a hazmat team should have been
activated and police and fire response would have been necessary, but
instead those fire officers stayed at home in their own beds and did not
address this serious problem.

Also, I would like to know where you are getting your information
concerning complaints against Dan Carscallen? Most people are too concerned
for their positions in the MVFD to speak up but there are many volunteers
who are concerned with his management style. The assault complaint was not
bogus. He found it his duty to respond to the hospital in the short amount
of time it took the ambulance to drive from Wal-Mart to confront a former
MVFD member about riding in the quick response vehicle...not the ambulance.
Ben Dill did not have any patient contact, he was merely with Shambaugh at
the time of the call and rode in the vehicle like so many other members
have in the past. Yet Carscallen felt it was ok to forcefully grab (not
some light elbow touch) a former member and citizen and significant other
of a paramedic to demonstrate his anger for proper paperwork?! The lead
paramedic, and only paramedic on the call was Bonnie Shambaugh, who was
operating the quick response vehicle to respond to the call. What federal
law did Dill refuse to follow? Again, this event happened AFTER the drug
discovery.

Furthermore, Dan Carscallen does not have 10 years of public service. He
has been a Basic level EMT for approx 5 years. He has been a firefighter
for even less. Yet he has politically won the position of Ambulance 1st Lt
and Fire Captain. He has the authority to run EMS operations when he have
never sought higher level EMT or firefighting certications. As far as I
know, he took the captains position without ever fighting a fire. He is
unfit for more reasons than what has been recently apparent in the
newspaper. He has proven he cannot think on his feet and he does not have
the integrity to admit when he was wrong and instead forces blame on those
who reported the problem with the expectation that he would do the right
thing too.

To go more into your claim about the discovery of the drugs...what makes
you think you know what the intentions of these firefighters were and what
they were doing at the time of the discovery? Obviously there is a lot that
was left out of the newspapers. To my knowledge the firefighters were all
friends, spending time in the room together on that night. A jewelery box
was spotted in the top desk drawer of one of the firefighters and thats
when it became a serious matter. Are you suggesting the firefighters should
have returned the jewelry box and not report the incident? Allow the
firefighter to potentially run calls, drive the fire engine, fight fire or
assist with medical calls under the influence? I dont know about you, but
most college aged young women do not ask permission to open jewelry boxes
and what happened was not a crime. There was no snooping in personal
belonging or searching while the other firefighter was asleep. That is an
assumption on your part. These girls were all friends, hanging out and
despite that relationship knew they had the duty to report the drugs.

MCO
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