Firefighters Let Home Burn Over Unpaid Fee

[FRPLG]

To me it comes down to this. It costs money to run a fire department. Putting out the fire in this case, to me, presents a pretty damn clear endangerment to the funding of the fire department. Blame a dumb policy that allows something like this to happen. Don't blame the fire-fighters and their bosses. They have to keep open for business for the greater good. Putting out fires for free works against that. It just does. At the end of the the day they chose not to do something that might end up costing them way more than just one fire. I can't fault them for that. Is it more decent to put the fire out and watch everyone else stop paying the fees and therefore have to curtail the service? Not to me it isn't. They had to choose between two crappy choices.

[saden1]

If you guys won't I will blame the firefighters...they're an accessory to the house burning down. Sometimes you have to ignore orders and they choose not to. Fck'em.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by saden1

If you guys won't I will blame the firefighters...they're an accessory to the house burning down. Sometimes you have to ignore orders and they choose not to. Fck'em.

The more I thought about this I agree with you. How the hell can you just watch someones house burn down. I still think there is more to this story and I'd love to see a time line of how this whole thing went down.