Dear Editor,
After reading the paper last week I have to say I was left very confused. I do not understand why Mr. Greenfield called the state office in Elko and filed complaints regarding the Mineral County Fire Department. As the Assistant Volunteer Fire Chief, Mr. Greenfield was obviously aware of all of the issues at the department, yet chose to say and do nothing about it until he was relieved of duty.
With both he and former Chief Knight presenting the “One Team, One Dream” motto to the commissioners, he is culpable in all of the things that are out of date at the department. Under that leadership, how safe were our firefighters? In my opinion, as someone in a leadership position, Mr. Greenfield should have brought all of these issues to light long before he was ever dismissed from his position. It seems to me, retaliation and attempting to save face is higher priorities to Mr. Greenfield than the safety of our firefighters ever was. And that is a shame.
Elizabeth Chisholm
Hawthorne
The reason you are probably confused is because you don’t know all the details. I don’t think anyone understands. The complaints were filed because of all the questionable activities that went on after Adam, the appointed Assistant Chief, was locked out of the station. As soon as Adam found out the current situation was not in compliance, he acted. As far as any past issues, they were brought up many times and it was our County that did not fulfill any of those requests. Those are on public record and can be requested at any time. In fact, I always request a copy of the local meetings. If you would like to borrow mine to help resolve any confusion I have them available.
If you look back all of the new or updated equipment that is currently at that station was only acquired because of grants. That all stopped once that job was passed onto a new grant writer who has failed to make a deadline to date, but who is being compensated very well! I don’t think you can currently state you know anything about the past leadership unless you have been following the situation. It is our county that makes all the decisions. The question is, how does someone walk in and the County hands them thousands of our tax payers dollars to do something that was done yearly, essentially free of charge? In turn, when questioned about recouping that money you just get a head turn. I also have the video on that if anyone is interested. Our own County, including the DA, is really good about turning their heads and looking the other way. Many complaints of been turned in and not once has anything been addressed. Since no one here is willing to take action the state needed to be informed.