A recently commissioned study of the Philadelphia Fire Department has been released. Needless to say the results paint a picture of a highly dysfunctional agency where rank and file firefighters and medics feel ignored, disrespected and marginalized by a highly autocratic and out of touch command staff. But you don’t have to take my word for it. Below are the results of the employee surveys compiled by the study group.
It defies logic that any agency would allow senior leadership to continue in light of the complete loss of confidence by rank and file this survey indicates. I can tell you from my point of view and in my opinion certain aspects of the study are 100% accurate. On the other hand most of the “solutions” called for by the same study would in most cases make things TREMENDOUSLY worse.
Most of them revolve around Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The system has been inundated with hundreds of thousands on non-emergency calls that are crushing the departments operations. Yet every time our senior command staff gets involved they only make things worse for the medics. This causes morale to be destroyed even further, and so it goes. I don’t know what will eventually come out of this study, but I’m not encouraged. We will most likely re-arrange the deck chairs… as the band plays on. LINK
Read the survey results below.
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