Town Manager John Musante
John Musante presented his Town Manger Report to his bosses, the Select Board, Monday night and pretty much glossed over the weekend public safety debacle, describing Amherst Fire Department as "busy."
Which is kind of like saying the Mexican Army kept the defenders of the Alamo "busy."
Of course he fawned over UMass giving us additional money to fund four extra firefighters to staff two ambulances on weekends, which still was not enough to handle the Friday overnight deluge of alcohol induced calls.
To which Select Board member Alisa Brewer responded in a refreshingly direct, Harry Truman sort of way, calling a drunk a drunk:
Sometimes all it takes
ReplyDeleteis a good old fashioned
blog-i-fied backhand
to wake up sleeping idiots.
What's that I hear?
(A symphony of grunts?!)
Oh,
my goodness
it isssss!
-Squeaky Squeaks
p.s. (fill in the friggan blank)
unrelated, but wondering why state police in combat fatigues have been "training" at Pelham PD last 2 days. Pelham PD says no comment. can you dig?
ReplyDeleteJohn Musante is doing an excellent job.
ReplyDeleteHe is doing an excellent job of owning whatever tragedy happens with his lack of public safety, not if, but when.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said at 10:22 AM…
ReplyDeleteAn excellent job of what specifically?
When a tragedy occurs because of our skimpy public safety staffing, will we as voters know it? Or will it get dutifully glossed over by the agencies involved?
ReplyDeletePerhaps we have already had people who were injured, or who didn't reach the hospital in time?
I'm just thinking that the staffing deficiencies may have already taken their toll on public safety in Amherst in ways too subtle for ordinary citizens to identify, but clear enough for public safety employees to recognize. There is probably an interest in our local government in putting the best "stiff upper lip" face on an extremely bad public safety situation.
Well I can tell you at this exact moment (9:47 PM on a Thursday) Northampton FD ambulance #5 is transporting a patient from Puffton Village to CDH because all our ambulances are busy.
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