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This is what we use during our yearly fund raising at my volunteer FD, those prices are fairly close to today's numbers. When you have 20 - 30 guys working a fire the money starts to add up really quickly.
Alot of those prices don't shock me...but the BA sure does. I didn't know they were going for $4k now. It's an expensive business. Alot of our gear was hand-me-downs from bigger, tax funded departments.
Your theory is to "buy the coverage after the wreck".
What's wrong with a homeowner exercising some personal responsibility? One can make all kinds of excuses for the homeowner, but the FACT remains that the homeowner consciously made a decision NOT to pay for fire protection as stated in the article.
Apparently it is acceptable for an individual to shirk his/her responsiblity to the family. Life is fully of choices. Why encourage others to make bad choices if they live near this Tennessee town?
Again, this isn't insurance...it's a fee for use. If it were insurance, then i could see your pointl
Look, i'm done arguing on this topic. I've said my peace and you've said yours. I don't want to live in a country where firefighters let a place burn down over 75 bucks. You do.
Again, this isn't insurance...it's a fee for use. If it were insurance, then i could see your pointl
Look, i'm done arguing on this topic. I've said my peace and you've said yours. I don't want to live in a country where firefighters let a place burn down over 75 bucks. You do.
Alot of those prices don't shock me...but the BA sure does. I didn't know they were going for $4k now. It's an expensive business. Alot of our gear was hand-me-downs from bigger, tax funded departments.
You pay a 75 dollar fee, you get to use the fire departments services.
Anyway, like i said...i'm done. No minds are getting changed here.
Doesn't Obama's healthcare plan have mandatory aspects to it to keep deadbeats from sticking everyone else with their bill? Shouldn't we just make it optional where you don't have to pay in but still get coverage?
You pay a 75 dollar fee, you get to use the fire departments services.
Anyway, like i said...i'm done. No minds are getting changed here.
I'm not quite sure that's how it works. If I start a bon-fire in my backyard, I don't think I can have the fire department come put it out just because I paid the $75.
I cant believe people are actually defending this. Its a greater cost to the community that this house was burnt down. So the county can save 75$, they just lost someone who probably paid thousands in property taxes and payed local taxes. Great logic there.
I haven't read all 148 posts in this thread, so I apologize if someone has already made this point.
Yes, I agree with those who say that the service must be paid for. But I'm struck by the following passages in the story:
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It's happened multiple times before in one local community: firefighters refuse to respond because the homeowner didn't pay a fire subscription fee.
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Bell said, "9-1-1 said they were in fact dispatched and they showed that they were on the scene."
But once on the scene, they only watched.
OK. But compare that to the official explanation also given in the story.
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"There's no way to go to every fire and keep up the manpower, the equipment, and just the funding for the fire department," Mayor David Crocker said.
But the firefighters were already there.
The manpower and equipment were already on the scene, and according to the story, they stayed there while the house burned down. Other than the cost of water not used by the firefighters, exactly what money was saved in having the manpower and equipment show up and then do nothing??
Me, I'd pay the 75 bucks. But in this specific instance, I think the firefighters who showed up and then watched the house burn without lifting a finger to help are pitiful excuses for human beings, much less firefighters.
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