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County Fire Chief Resigns
April 16, 2010
Escambia County’s top fireman has submitted his resignation.
Fire Chief Frank Edwards submitted his resignation Thursday; it will be effective in 90 days on July 15. Edwards took the job back in August of August, 2009. He had served as Pensacola’s fire chief since 2007.
Edwards’ resignation comes two weeks after Interim County Administrator Larry Newsom asked the county’s fire marshal, Steven Rinaldi, to resign. Rinaldi did not resign; instead, he was transferred into a training position by Edwards.
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12 Responses to “County Fire Chief Resigns”
The normal Escambia County Drama. Rinaldi had such a power trip that it finally caught up to him. It is a shame though that Edwards has to pay the price for the incompitence of others.
My previous station house was a combo department, you have too have the right people in the right positions to make the system work. Running a combo department is very difficult with many challenges, it takes time and lots of hard work. The key is to make everyone part of the team, paid or unpaid.
Good Luck brothers and sisters
-Joe
“Firefighters for Christ”
two sides my foot!
The bad guys run the show here, and everybody knows it, it’s just that the
trash in this town like it that way!
The bad guys in this government out number the good, and they just plain
run them out!
It was not wise to combine Public Safety under one roof. EMS needs to have one Manager and Escambia Fire needs to have its on Chief as it was prior to August 2009 . It is hard for one person to oversee all of Escambia County in both Fire and Ambulance services since insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and private pay keep the EMS side going and our taxes by a whole keep the fire service going. House Insurance doesn’t cover paying for the fire service being called out like automobile, house, and private insurances pay for EMS. Our Fire taxes go up because of the Fire Service not EMS. EMS gets very limited amout of the piece of pie you see every October 1st after budget time.
There are some in NE that are very happy to see this man go.
Something about two sides to every story
Why Not Let BAT 1 Run The County Jim Does a Great Job
How much money and time will be paying to find a new one? Tax dollars at work.
As I know that as Firefighter, Escambia County has so many issue and problems with the fire service for the past few years. It should not be up to the county directors or commisoner. Everything should be taken care by Executive Fire Chief who oversee all District Chief to maitain everything, have meeting, and bring up ideas to make change in the county to make it much better but the county commisoner or directors does not want to do that.
Thats a SHAME! He was a good chief and knew what he was doing.
I smell smoke. And you know what they say about that….
“Somthings Burning” !!
Our county govt is a smaller version of our federal govt…