Just as a physician can be charged with malpractice for an unintentional act, the Voting Rights Act can be violated if voters are not given equal access to vote. Discrimination can and does occur even if it is not intentional. Patricia A. Lavins Vero Beach Firefighters ad distorted the facts The professional firefighters of Indian River County placed a full page ad on June 19 blaming all their problems on politics. The authors would have you believe there is some kind of conspiracy going on in Indian River County Commission chambers. They talk about PEP reefs and Dodgertown when the true intent is to show that EMS in our county is lacking.
Nothing can be farther from the truth.
A plan was formulated that would achieve consolidation, but was rejected, not by Doug Wright, the commission, or the paramedics, but by fire leadership because the plan maintained medic rank structure and didn t cut medic pay. I know because I was on the executive board of the fire union at the time. There have been several studies and several committees formed to look into emergency services in our county. Recommendations were made to hire an outside consultant. This was rejected as an unnecessary expense, in light of all the work done by county staff and committees that saw EMS here as not broken and not in need of fixing.