Thanks, SLCPDEXPLORER. You summed up pretty much everything! I was trying to be a little bit more "politically correct", but sometimes you just have to tell it like it is. Well said and nothing that's not true.
For those not from the St. Louis area, go to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's website and read the articles in the archives about Northeast's problems. Lately, there have been a few articles per week on what's going on there. A lot of dirt has been exposed. The district's funds have been frozen and the firefighters haven't recieved a paycheck in a couple of weeks, as the Missouri State Auditor came in and even said that it's the worst she's ever seen.
The citizen that SLCPDEXPLORER is referring to drowned in a pool at a country club because the part-time medics on the ambulance didn't know the district streets. Had the incompetant black chiefs and board not fired just about every white employee who had been there for several years prior, the person probably would've survived, since the ambulance would've gotten there in about 3 minutes versus the 25 or so minutes it took them to get there!
Bandit, I'm not complaining ("griping") so much about Northeast's choice to go to black-over-red apparatus, but you have to know the background about what's been going on up in that district and the idiots that are running it. A solid black ambulance is just one of many examples of their mindset. Maybe this sounds somewhat racial, but a solid black ambulance, I believe, is their way of showing that a totally black fire department ("employees", that is, not fire apparatus) is their goal. You can disagree with me all day long, but this is just my opinion.
I like black-over-red apparatus, but I prefer solid red or white-over-red as a preference. Chrome yellow, lime yellow, lime green, I'm not real crazy about those colors. White is OK, but I'll take red any day. I'm a traditionalist.
For those not from the St. Louis area, go to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's website and read the articles in the archives about Northeast's problems. Lately, there have been a few articles per week on what's going on there. A lot of dirt has been exposed. The district's funds have been frozen and the firefighters haven't recieved a paycheck in a couple of weeks, as the Missouri State Auditor came in and even said that it's the worst she's ever seen.
The citizen that SLCPDEXPLORER is referring to drowned in a pool at a country club because the part-time medics on the ambulance didn't know the district streets. Had the incompetant black chiefs and board not fired just about every white employee who had been there for several years prior, the person probably would've survived, since the ambulance would've gotten there in about 3 minutes versus the 25 or so minutes it took them to get there!
Bandit, I'm not complaining ("griping") so much about Northeast's choice to go to black-over-red apparatus, but you have to know the background about what's been going on up in that district and the idiots that are running it. A solid black ambulance is just one of many examples of their mindset. Maybe this sounds somewhat racial, but a solid black ambulance, I believe, is their way of showing that a totally black fire department ("employees", that is, not fire apparatus) is their goal. You can disagree with me all day long, but this is just my opinion.
I like black-over-red apparatus, but I prefer solid red or white-over-red as a preference. Chrome yellow, lime yellow, lime green, I'm not real crazy about those colors. White is OK, but I'll take red any day. I'm a traditionalist.
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