Can this be discussed now w/o a ban:
https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/College-Station-Fire-Chief-resigns-564986272.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_KBTXNews


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guess we won't get banned for posting now.

[An official release is not a rumor. -Staff]

There's a pretty significant exodus out of the Department by guys who still have the chance to go to other places. I only anticipate that it will increase now that Jeff Capps is running the day to day operations. Part of the reason so many people in the Fire and Police Department are leaving are because of the inept management of City management leaders.

This town is being run like the College Station of the 1990s and it shows in the infrastructure as well as Police responses. Taxing isn't the issue either because the city continues to mismanage the tax money they're given by the citizens.

It is interesting that an assistant chief just retired also...

https://m.facebook.com/events/college-station-fire-station-6/retirement-reception-chief-joe-don-warren/1215622895289310/

This KBTX anchor said the city led him to believe this wasnt happening, but then showed up out of the blue with a resignation.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2498115077135390&id=1907704179509819

What do y'all think? Oversight, miscommunication, or deliberate misdirection?

Perhaps he misunderstood? Our politicians would never lie to the public, they have complete trust from the citizens.

Not surprising. First responders in general get horrible support from administrators here. Support from the public is great and Bryan has decent support from the city, but CSPD, CSFD, UPD, and BCSO don't have what they need to effectively do their jobs. Not to mention they are all hemorrhaging employees to departments with competitive pay.

We all know he couldn't stomach the idea of Crompton back on council. I'd quit too.

Not necessarily. There are a number of cops, firefighters, and paramedics that post on here and their usernames are known at work.

It might be a little wiser to register a rookie account if a person is going to start blasting rumors on here.

AgGunNut said:

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My guess is that it's due to comments that have come from a number of unvetted rookie members who are likely members of the departments in question and a mix of other community members. It says a lot to me that they are speaking about what's going on, considering the flip-side are long-time TexAgs members that are clearly not employees of the departments in question, don't work there, and don't know the internal workings/politics.

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I have found that the more rook accounts on the thread in the Aggieland forum, the more likely it is to be true.

Word is he didn't leave for another job.

There is a firefighter association, and they were actively in discussions with fire admin about management issues within the department. They have been very respectful and have not aired out any dirty laundry or spread ill words to the public or news media.