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

[Art Deco]

You are so close to mastering the art of smoke screening, that one might
believe that you are taking lessons from Bobby Horrendous.

w.

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Gary Crabtree <jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> **
> 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 <art.deco.studios at gmail.com>
> *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 <moscowcityopinion at gmail.com>
>> *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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