On Edgerton Fire plans to hire full-time chiefs

Posted on October 6 at 8:18 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

I believe that all of the facts need to be put out before judgment is passed. Any private ambulance company will run into the same problems that curtis has. Working with volunteers is dificult. Volunteers have lives outside of EMS or Fire servicse. They need to spend time with family and work full time jobs. Devoting extra time and being woken up at 2 or 3 in the morning is not easy, especially when you have to go to your real job at 6 or 7 am. Not only is being a volunteer difficult, so is manaaging volunteers. The service needs to make sure that the ambulance calls are covered and ther are no openings in the schedule. Sometimes to do this, a company or a service needs to put on full time and part time staff to cover the openings. When you do this, it creates added dollars to the payroll, that someone has to pay for. Unlike mu;niciple services, private companies do not receive grants from the state or the federal government. They have to bill patiients and in the instance of Edgerton, they may have to ask for more monies from the communities to suplplement their losses. Why not look at the good things that may have been don for Edgerton by Curtis and not focus on the negatives.
As for the fulltime Chief's positions, it is a great idea. Oh, wait, isn't that what Curtis did? Add paid on-call and full time positions?