Friday, August 12, 2005
FISHY COVER-UP - LIGHTS ON
WHAT A DAY ALREADY !
My morning BLAH-G was posted at 6:53 AM, I managed to get to bed around 7:30 AM and I was back up before 10. About 2 hours, damn I slept in !
FISHY
I am going to attempt to handle this in professional manner.
I had posted on the BLAH-G yesterday that there was a fire chief that called me at my “center” and he told me how much he loved this new system. Not a problem in the world… you know, flowers and roses.
If all of the Fire Chiefs that are emailing me and all of the ones I’ve spoke to in person all dislike this new system because of it’s known problems, and this ONE CHIEF says everything is just fine… then something has to be wrong in Bean Town.
I did some checking this morning with some of my contacts that I have at the courthouse and elsewhere and I found out that this Chief’s Son is a 911 Dispatcher !
So, did a light come on in anyone else’s head too ?
As far as being professional, I am not going to mention this chief by name or fire company. I should be asking you, my readers why I shouldn’t mention his name but perhaps I don’t want to get his son, the dispatcher in trouble.
If you are going to give me a tip or information about our radio system, or email me with some inside information, just be sure of your reasons behind this. If someone at the county is doing something wrong then let me know, do not make anything up !
Since I began writing these BLAH-G’s I’ve made many friends that include Police and Fire Chiefs, other officers and county employees in just about every department including the Department of Public Safety. So anything or tip that you forward to me can be easily checked.
That fire chief should have known that ! As Gomer would have said “for shame, for shame” !
COVER UP ?
You know I originally started out trying to keep up with Frick and Frack on District 5 police, but then when the system became active I switched my focus into making this system better. You know, so two people could actually hear each other !
Now that I am devoting a lot of time into finding out why the system isn’t working I am also uncovering a bunch of waste.. at least a Half a Million Dollars of ours has been spent on items we did not need, Wasted Money!!
When I originally called and spoke to Mark Brammell at the Department of Emergency Management he said he was going to call me back and never did. The Westmorland County Commissioner’s office has told me several times that Commissioner Tom Balya will be calling me but still has not. The County Controller's Office started to answer some questions but then I was referred back to Mark Brammell and Management.
Round and Round and Round we go
This isn't going to stop until you and I know
They can keep closing doors on me
But that won't stop the Blah-ger from finding the truth, you see
Then I get a call from a fire chief that says his system is working great and that I shouldn’t be “telling people lies”. Is there a cover up brewing ??
155.160 AMBULANCE
As I was getting ready for my winter sleep in this morning I heard an ambulance service say something to the effect “we are now switching over to 800 Mhz operations”. I wasn’t paying too much attention and I was quite tired so I don’t know if they were switching all their radio operations over from this date forward or for that particular call only.
My one antenna is about 55 feet high so even the other counties services come in strong here too.
If you have any info on an ambulance service that has moved over today, please drop me a note.
tips, notes, inside info... please forward to: news@k3sam.com
TIME
I believe I deserve some time to do go out and smell the radio waves. I’m heading over to check on a tower and get some fresh RF Burns. Don’t be stranger than me, or is that don’t be a stranger ?
I’ll be back with I believe some more breaking news in tonight’s issue (or tomorrow morning).
If Management thought they were going to get a break this weekend they were wrong.
Recorder running and so am I.
DECODED,
K3SAM
