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

Wed May 9 20:34:21 PDT 2012

You are certainly more then welcome. If my initial sense of ANY given situation is 180 degrees from yours, I take comfort in the knowledge that I am on the right track. 
You may now return to doing your level best to turning this Moscow Volunteer Molehill into the epic mountain you imagine it to be.

g

From: Art Deco 
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 7:49 PM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fwd: Moscow fire chief denies drug cover-up

Thank you Gary for taking the moral high ground:  Vilify and denigrate the whistle blowers, ignore the seriousness of the complaint, ignore the egregiously wrong headed initial and continuing responses of Carscalen and Button.  You are indeed a wonderful role model for young Republicans everywhere.

w. 

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Gary Crabtree <jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:

  As I suspected, less about the pill and more about someone having their collective nose out of joint over their, their friends, or their friends paramour de'jour not getting a position that they felt sure they were more entitled to.

  Boring. Moving on.

  g

  From: Anonymous Opinion 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 5:54 PM
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Subject: [Vision2020] Fwd: Moscow fire chief denies drug cover-up

  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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