Baltimore City Fire Department, Independent Investigation ...

Interviewee: Yes.
Interviewer: You’ve had five, six days a week.
Interviewee: Shaking of head “Yes.”
Interviewer: Six days a week?
Interviewee: ‘Ah, four or five, dependin’ on whether or not we were work that Saturday
that they’re in.
Interviewer: So, an average of five days a week, you think?
Interviewee: Four and a half.
Interviewer: Yea, four and a half days a week,…
Interviewee: Shaking of head “Yes.”
Interviewer: …so, for three months, three or so months,…
Interviewee: Right.
Interviewer: …what kind of student was Rachel? Rachel Wilson?
Interviewee: ‘Ah, ‘ah, that’s a toughfy. She seemed nice and friendly but when I would
sound like a broken record and safety and other issues like that, she’d be
rolling her eyes. ‘Um, sometimes when you wanted her to do a skill, she
would, you’d show her what you wanted her to do and she’d do it different.
And you’d say, no, no, that’s not how we do it. We do it this way. And,
again, she’d roll her eyes. But…
Interviewer: Did she, how was her…
Interviewee: She did most of the stuff that I worked with her, eventually she, she got it.
Interviewer: Evolution wise, I mean, she did, did she do all the evolutions, passin’ all the
classes up to this mark?
Interviewee: Up to that point, ‘yea.
Interviewer: ‘Yea. So, there was nothin’ to say hey, she better not go here or she can’t do
this? So she did like pass the rest of the PA…
Interviewee: Shaking of head “Yes.” Right.
Interviewer: …Was able to throw ladders that you know of?
Interviewee: I didn’t work with her with ladders.
Interviewer: You didn’t work with her with ladders?
Interviewee: No. I’ve been assigned to do a bunch of, to do a lot of administrative duties
now ‘cause I’m, I’m sittin’ second on the captain’s list right now. So they
actually have me doin’ a lot of the captain’s duties because some of the
captain’s positions out there are actually filled with people who are floating
in the field. So, I’ve been doin’ that: payroll, city stat., OSHA forms, ‘ah, a
few other things; projects givin’ to me by the Chief, so…
Interviewer: ‘Mmm ‘Mmm.
Interviewee: …a lot of the time they were all down there doin’ their repetitive stuff after
the actual class, I was involved in doin’ administrative duties, so I haven’t
spent as much time with this class as I had classes in the past. I used to be
out there with ‘em in the yard every time they were out there.
Interviewer: ‘Mmm ‘Mmm.
Interviewee: And now I’ve got, I say, a lot of administrative duties.
Interviewer: ‘Mmm ‘Mmm. You just said that you had a concern when you got there that
you didn’t have a RIT line set up. At what point did, was, did that concern
you that you didn’t have one set up?