You have A LOT of assumptions in your reply. Again I have a family friend who works for this man. He became physically sick when he saw your post, he became sick because all to many Villagers believe this is how Chief Tucker is when in reality he is EXTREMELY belittling to his employee's, has not lifted
a finger to help clean up after a fire in years (because that's below him), has not written a report in years, and if he was exhausted it was from driving to the fire. Please don't believe me or my friend on this one, take a drive to your local fire station and in conversation ask when the last time THEY saw the fire chief fighting a fire, picking up hose, or returning to the station to help after a fire. You are sadly misinformed of this man, and his actions as a chief. His crews do not respect him, they have no confidence in him and they are leaving in mass numbers. Last number I heard was almost 20 position needed to be filled, he will quickly blame this on the retirement these firefighters have but the truth of the matter is a lot of them are tired of being treated like yesterdays garbage.
WE NEED TO STAND BEHIND THE ONES THAT SERVE US SO WELL AND FORCE THE VILLAGES TO GET THEM A TRUE LEADER, one that will do all of the tings you posted, for a second I thought you had him confused with the Sumter County Fire Chief.
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Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee
I have to agree with this comment .................. and I'll continue by asking "is this really child abuse" or was it a one off over-reaction to a smart mouth teenager, or is it an ongoing problem in the house? If it is an ongoing problem in the house then it's child abuse. I think if there was habitual child abuse in the home someone outside the home would have known about it. There are four boys, one of them would have mentioned something to someone by now.
I have just finished reading the piece in the paper which states that Mike Tucker had been out with his crew fighting the Villa fire, I am going to assume he returned to the Fire Station to help with the clean up of the engine and putting away equipment and then probably had to write at least one, probably two or more lengthy reports on the fire. I am going to assume he then went home exhausted and the son in question probably made a stupid typical teenage comment ................ At that point Mike Tucker appears to have lost it and pushed, slapped, whatever, his son causing him to fall off the kitchen stool. The son probably was more than annoyed by this reaction and continued to give his Father lip and from then on all hell broke lose in that house.
I have raised boys, great kids, but push my buttons they certainly could and did.
I am hoping when this case does go to court Mike Tucker will have a Judge who has some commonsense and gets to the bottom of this.
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