Steve Salrin
April 20, 2025 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
MRN’s David Adam talks to Quincy Fire Chief Steve Salrin about his new position and the rash of fires in vacant buildings around the city.
Read Full Article April 15, 2025 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — To loan or transfer? That was the question posed by Alderman Mike Rein (R-5) during Monday night’s Quincy City Council meeting regarding how the city plans to borrow from the city’s $6 million reserve fund to pay for a water main replacement project on Broadway from 24th to 30th Street. An ordinance that would transfer…
Read Full Article April 8, 2025 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Aldermen spent 90 minutes before Monday night’s City Council meeting listening to the start of the review of the city budget for 2025-26. Comptroller Sheri Ray said the $54.89 million budget for the general fund is down 6.89 percent from last year’s budget because the city gave extra money last year for capital…
Read Full Article April 4, 2025 | By Aspen Gengenbacher, MRN Journalist
QUINCY — Less than 10 days into his field training, Quincy Police Department (QPD) Officer Gabe VanderMaiden made a split-second decision that many law enforcement officers hope to never have to make. VanderMaiden and 25-year QPD veteran Officer Matt Hermsmeier responded on Jan. 11, 2024, to a situation of domestic violence involving an armed suspect…
Read Full Article March 11, 2025 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The Quincy Police Department is conducting a criminal investigation after an early Tuesday morning fire decimated the main lobby building of the Welcome Inn, 200 Maine. Officials with Ameren Gas and Electric were on scene to confirm the building did not have utilities at the time of the fire — which led Steve…
Read Full Article March 4, 2025 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Aldermen tabled for one week a vote on a resolution to award a $4.038 million contract to Wiemelt Plumbing to replace as many as 340 lead water lines between Cherry and Locust and between Second and Fifth. Dave Bauer (D-2), a member of the Utilities Committee, said a competing bid was much lower…
Read Full Article February 11, 2025 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Not being selected as the chief of the Quincy Fire Department in 2021 was a wake-up call for Steve Salrin. “I think I took things for granted based on my position within the department and how long I’ve been there,” Salrin said. “I took that, kind of ran with it and regrouped a…
Read Full Article January 23, 2025 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The Board of Fire and Police Commissioners announced Thursday that it has selected two finalists for the position of chief of the Quincy Fire Department. Barry Cheyne, chairman of the board, said in a press release that Steve Salrin, deputy chief of operations for the Quincy Fire Department, and Shawn Smith, assistant chief…
Read Full Article November 22, 2022 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Chief Bernie Vahlkamp and Deputy Chief Steve Salrin with the Quincy Fire Department couldn’t convince the Quincy City Council not to make three changes to an ordinance to adopt the 2018 series of the International Code Council model code for the city’s building code. Aldermen voted at the end of the meeting to…
Read Full Article March 15, 2022 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Fire Chief Bernie Vahlkamp, Deputy Fire Chief Steve Salrin and Michael Seaver, director of inspection and enforcement, made a presentation Monday night before the Quincy City Council to explain the importance of updating the city’s building and fire codes. Seaver explained the city’s last updated its building and fire codes 2008, adopting codes…
Read Full Article April 25, 2025
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