[samhass]

Originally Posted by Villager357

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.

Your statement that we are understaffed by about twenty positions in the fire department bears investigation.