Steve Salrin
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 01, 2025
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