KC Star Today
Widely expected annoncement yesterday of KCMO Fire Chief Smokey Dyer's retirement. He is taking advantage of an early out retirement program at the department which many view as a way to get him to move on...which he is.
"Ambulance Worries"
Besides current budget issues at the department a lot of focus recently has been the poor response times of ambulance service (including South Platte Ambulance District). The merger of the former Mast and KCFD was overseen by Dyer. In fact, as noted here, South Platte recently dumped KCMO in favor of AMR because KCMOFD never achieved contract performance goals in two and a half years. Councilman Ed Ford noted, "Smokey to this day does not believe response times are important". I personally observed this at Ambulance District meetings...arrogance on the part of Smokey or his minions.
Too little, too late. For South Platte it is off to AMR. Can KCMO fix their ambulance problems? We shall see. In the meantime Smokey will stay busy as a consultant. Nice.
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they must be celebrating in KCMO, they are rid of Louie Wright and Smokey. Mike did anyone at our City Hall seem alarmed at the ambulance problems, seems like a big issue to me.
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