According to sources, Hartford Firefighter Douglas Caldwell was arrested Wednesday evening for Public Intoxication. I have FOI'd the police report and as soon as I receive it, I'll post it here.
Sources have also confirmed that the "extended vacation" was apparently a stint in rehab... his arrest probably indicates that didn't go too well.
More on Caldwell here
UPDATE FROM HPD, DEPUTY CHIEF FOLEY 3:00pm
I can confirm that on 6/10/14 a Douglas Caldwell, 42, of Hartford was issued a misdemeanor summons for violating city ordinance 4-3, "Public Drinking" while at 291 Barbour St. He was given a court date of 06/17/14 0900 hours.
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28 comments:
I would absolutely hate to see it happen, but if someone ends up getting killed or badly injured because of this drunk, both the City and the Union will have blood on their hands.
Technically he didn't do anything wrong. Public intoxication is only a misdemeanor offense. If under his stipulation with eap he went to rehab and finished with out any further incidents on the "job" he's covered by Vinney and The third floor. Wipe the slate clean he self admitted his self to rehab wich erases his record like mercados he's even. Off the job misdamenor offenses is just another transfer or promotion. Welcome to tac 760 Hfd not the good of the Union but for the good of the untouchables that makes us want to puke.
Hey Vinney other than when you ran got re-election when was the last time you've come around to the firehouses to talk to the union members. Remember the famous line from the movie Armed and Dangerous " just shut up and vote"
Hey Kevin, entire dept. know what's been going on with Doug for a long time now. you reported about him months ago. anonymous 1 is right- both the city and union will have blood on their hands if something bad happens to anyone because of Doug the drunk.
I've seen this first hand myself, and it's sad, the ones that work and do their job, and love the job, get nothing, not even a "Good Job", but the ones that screw up, are the ones that get the attention and the promotions.Why is this ?
Terry will fix it all soon once he takes control. Huertas is in over his head. Vinny. You make me sick. Karma will find you one day. But terry will handle all the children and give u five cross your lip
Public drinking?? Lol. Wait till he kills someone. There is a long paper trail. I hope i get injured under his watch then i will sue everyone for not taking action. No biggy. Its always about color with doug anyways. Not the fact that he is probably the most disfunctional raging alcoholic i have ever encountered. Put him in 253 high for a while. Let him stumble around on camera.... He can hang out with terry and polish his shoes ..
hey, even mayor caviar Segarra knew what going on with Doug and did nothing
Rumor has it that even Terry wants to go back on the line. He doesn't want to be the chief of department anymore because he sees how screwed up the department is and doesn't want to be Local 760's puppet. They are the ones in charge of the department and its gonna fall on their shoulders in the end when one of the handful of people the union always backs to the hilt ends up hurting or killing someone. Besides, exactly how many Administrative Leaves "paid vacations' can you keep on giving these trouble makers before someone says enough?
BLOOD! Apperantly that's what the talking heads of the City, HFD and Union are waiting for. Blood. That would make it so easy for them all. Like across our country, some one will die, Caldwell will be gone,then change will happen. And as usual politicians, dept leaders and so on will get there faces in the media with all the "How tradgic" and"How wounderfull am I to be a part of change" B***S*** and life goes back to normal. The victim or victims and family will be forgotten about of course, we don't want to leave that out. Sit back and watch it happen. We as ordinary citizens can do nothing about it but what we are doing here! God help the person and family who will pay the price.
Our union officials are drunk with power and ambition to the point that they have sold their membership down the road. And all to protect a handful of "entitled" mental cases who only find support in the Peanuts Society.
Hey Tic tac toe, Terry is only 4'3". He ain't given anyone five across the lip! Maybe five on the kneecaps.
Terry is also a coward, never went in fires and never stood up to anyone.
He hides behind his badge, bars, and bugles. All of which he didn't earn. They were gifts from Sandy.
Meet Terry alone and off the job and he is a p*ssy. Just close your eyes and hear that squeaky ass voice saying "I fire your ass".
The Unions position is to protect all employees not just an individual. If its the mass consensus by the Union body that Caldwell is unfit to continue working for the HTFD then the procees of removal by recomendation from the Union should be started. Its a misconception that only Admin can recomend discipline or removal of an employee and the the Union is obligated to cover for an out control employee that chooses not to comply with dept regs and such.
Mr. Brookman, seems like city employees are being arrested in all department's. I am sure you heard of the City Forester in Public Works, who is a supervisor who has sexual relationships with the employees she supervusors. This is well known by the Mayor and the Council, well the Forester is now pregnant by her employee, whom she just had arrested on the job. The Mayor does nothing because she is Charlie's access to do what the hell he pleases in Elizabeth Park. She socializes with Pedro and Charlie and works on their trees. She assigns work according to Charlies wishes, check the calls between her, Charlie and the Mayor.
If she was a man, this would be addressed, the best oart is when addressed with Keith Chapman he said; I don't see any issue with work relationships, that's how I met my wife. He has taking advantage of a young women in the workplace and has a three year old son. Perhaps his wife and the Forester can have play dates, they both live far away, have nothing to do with Hartford but the arrested employee is a Hartford resident. Get the emails from HR. This is ridicilous!
What happened to the Elizabeth Park audit? The Chief has all the information.
HFD 760 will never recommend anyone for termination. Tac 760 wants as many people as humanly possible paying union dues.
After all, who is gonna pay for their new union hall? Who is gonna pay their generous stipends?
Who is gonna pay for all of the conventions they attend? (let me remind you they can take as many people as they wish, bar tabs, meals, hotels, etc.)
"Union Business"- what a crock of sh*t!
Whule at the fuel island iI heard the guys talking about calling the Maury show and bringing half of Parks to the show to be tested.
I work in HPD we hosted an event at KOJI's and the Forester was so drunk, went home without paying her tab, oh and with Jared. I guess she's upping her standards.
This employee better be careful, she'll be crying rape next. We all know her at UCONN, check her record, she files complaints, when she doesn't get her way. She wants to do, what she wants to do. Thank you Hartford for taking her off our hands and her back.
If it is the unions position to protect all employees then how do they reconcile endangering their general membership with these cronic, hazard employees like Mercado and Caldwell.
Play the race card and the gender card, the union is worried about being sued.
HFD works a 24 hr on 72 off schedule. The lazy district chiefs/ Union officials at the time it was implemented said it would be too hard to split the ot shifts. But when we got a 3 million dollar grant for haz mat training they quickly figured it out. The real is that it would be too much of a headache because half the shit bags on the job wouldn't show up for the second part of ot shift. There would be no consequence for these people who didn't. We are the only FD in the state who doesn't split the shifts sad.
Kevin,
I just saw the Courant's article on Caldwell. Finally something is being done. There is no way he can go 2 years without screwing up. Good bye Doug!
Thanks for getting the ball rolling by spreading the word about him. Once the news copied and dug deeper into your post, things got done.
Thanks again Kevin, keep it up!
p.s. Local Tac 760, about time you grew some balls...
There were 4 incidents. How is this strike two?
No way he makes it two years. Not even six monthes. He is an angry drunk. He cant control himself. They send him to rehab. And then right off the wagon the next day. There is more chance for that baseball stadium then doug makin it two years with no arrests or firehouse drinking sessions. So what is the protocol now? He should be assigned to headquarters. Keep him on a desk. DO NOT put him in a house. That is a serious job safety issue.
All these guys on 760 should be replaced...don't let Vinny tell us he's the only one who can negotiate with the city. We have a monopoly on our service...how hard are negotiations when you have a monopoly. These guys lie to our faces all the time and protect those who assault us. Vinny, Pete and most of the rest should go. Pete, you are going to get your next promotion, but at the cost of your reputation for honesty. Vinny, you are going to be a private.
The Tac Union 760 don't care about the members. The Union is a secret society, or even better, a mushroom farm. You grow mushrooms by keeping them in the dark and feeding them rotten sh*t.
Thats how they treat the members. All they want from us is dues. Shut up and pay dues. Pete, you were a great guy, your reputation is crap now that you drank the coolaid. Vinny was always crap.
Anonymous was correct, we have EMS which is huge in Hartford. If the city was to screw us on next contract, tell Pedro we give up EMS and start closing companies. Lay off the last 3 classes of lazy ungrateful sh*tbags who didn't want the job anyway!
Ahh, another drunk finally gets caught! Cinque was an idiot from day one, lazy disgusting slob. Third floor and Tac 760 covered and transferred this guy for years, just like Caldwell.
Make him sign a letter and get rid of him! NEXT!
Such a shame. Another public figure. Hope my house dont catch fire while hes on duty. I see this drunk everywhere at all luquor stores. I even told the owner u see this guy can barely walk and hes driving. Doug along with his kind makes HFD look bad. You guys are here to protect and serve. If i gotta let Doug save me i will take my chances on jumping. I read he had to be awaken for calls. SMH and was still allowed to go out. This lookout stuff needs to stop before someone had blood on their hands....PLEASE
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