Firefighters Let Home Burn Over Unpaid Fee

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Originally Posted by mredskins

My question is who has the time to look this stuff up when the alarms are going off? Or does every house have a sticker on it like the car property tax sticker in VA?

My gut tells me there is more to the story like someone didn't like this guy and they found a loop hole when he was in need.

They're called dispatchers. Their job is to sit and answer the phone and look stuff up on the computer. They have plenty of time to do it. No one singled the out. They didn't pay..they got what they paid for. That's how the system works. Shitty system or not it is what it is. The firefighters don't get to ignore the rules and use their multimillion dollar equipment to do whatever they think is right. The problem isn't what any one person did or didn't do. The problem is that fire service is something that costs money and someone has to pay for it. Leaving that up to individuals is either a good idea if we're all cool with those who didn't pay not getting the service at all or a bad idea if we want everyone to get fire protection because they are never going to get every single household to pay up every year.