Barbara Schmidt 7/15/24 Barbara Schmidt 7/15/24

Orono Citizens! And especially Navarre Residents!

How many Fire Forums has Orono held for You? ZERO.

How many Fire Forums has Long Lake held for You? TWO!!

In other news documented in the attached article we find out that OFD doesn't have boat nor a tanker truck. Did they forget? or Omit? Or?

Does this all seem unplanned and rushed? After all, they are charging tens of millions of dollars for Orono Fire that seems to be missing equipment, a fire house and a full team to do the job.

Barbara Schmidt 7/15/24 Barbara Schmidt 7/15/24

Orono Citizen writes concern about Orono's Fire Services

10 Reasons why everyone should be paying attention to this issue and the lack of process, lawsuit, extraordinary expenditures without Citizen input and the clear taxpayer opposition to such a move.

If you have concerns, please comment below and share this article with fellow residents. It's never too late for Safety in our community.

Barbara Schmidt 7/15/24 Barbara Schmidt 7/15/24

Special Notice to Orono Citizens! Ethics Matter

Here is another example of block voting by three Orono City Council member to push through spending more taxpayer funds on the Orono Fire Department the residents clearly do not want.

Barbara Schmidt 7/14/24 Barbara Schmidt 7/14/24

Navarre and Surrounding Residents Should be Concerned

With the new Orono Fire Department July 1st start just a month away, a concerned Orono Citizen asked the biggest questions of all - "Who is going to show up if I call the Fire Department?"

Little information from the City of Orono is cited and fear of lack of Fire Department training also mentioned for this Navarre and surrounding area Orono Fire Department zone.

Barbara Schmidt 6/25/24 Barbara Schmidt 6/25/24

Cutting Service? Understaffed? Temp Firehouses? Are they Serious?

Are Orono residents getting the whole fire service story?

Orono’s new fire chief Van Eyll never hired one other paid on-call firefighter during their recruitment campaign other than those from the Long Lake Fire Department (LLFD).

Why is that? Because other departments and cities know about working with Mayor Walsh? Or was it because Walsh was trying to take over the LLFD? Or did outside firefighters not want to work with Van Eyll?

Barbara Schmidt 6/24/24 Barbara Schmidt 6/24/24

Read #denniswalshformayor latest post:

1) Orono is clearly not proud #dennywalshformayor

2) July 1st is the day that Citizens may be in danger with an unproven and slapped together Orono fire service in Navarre

3) Only four people in Orono made this "long term decision" for their own short term gain:

Barbara Schmidt 3/18/24 Barbara Schmidt 3/18/24

Breaking News: Majority of Citizens do not want a Separate Orono Fire Department

Breaking News: Majority of Citizens do not want an Orono Fire Department

During the 3/11/24 Orono City Council meeting, Orono Council member Alisa Benson presented a tabulation of the citizen comment cards. Calculations show that 26% were for the fire department, 60% were against the fire department and 11% had more questions regarding fire service.