Firefighters Let Mans Home Burn Over Unpaid $75 Fee

they do that here too...hold the boot out for donations from citizens as they are trying to leave the mall parking lot...and then donate it to a charity as a "firefighter" donation

at least it goes to a good place


I usually say no..I'd rather save it and give to the poppy people for rememberance day collections

 

The firefighters in my town do that as well and I try to donate as much as possible. But taxes around here are pretty cheap but we also must pay for trash removal ourselves, if you are not contracted you will not have your garbage taken away.

 

Because no matter how much I hated your opinion, if you were in trouble, I wouldn't think twice, I would helping you. What is this world coming to? Isn't there any sense of community anymore? What happened to "love thy neighbour"?

PAX

 

If someones house is burning, put out the fire and then worry about the money later.

 

Dude, it doesn't friggin matter what the circumstances are! If there is a fire threatening someones livelihood it should be put out! YES he should be reprimanded, YES he should have to pay out the ass for being a complete idiot, but c'mon, don't let the guys house and animals burn out of spite! Poor guy.

 

Personally I would not think twice, I would jump in and try to put out the fire. But I am not a firefighter, as I said earlier if one of the firefighters got hurt or killed, what then?

 

it wasnt spite...they have a policy to follow and they followed it

the policy needs to change

 

^fair enough
Yes, the policy does need to change.

 

Thank you for posting the video hotwater!!

Yea it is very strange he didnt do this! (Only thinking of himself which is sad)

 

Ive been talking to some rural landowners on another forum and they say the regular way this works is that you either pay the fee and get on a list or if you're not on the list you have to pay the total cost of labor etc...charged out as manhours at a set rate

this sounds totally within reason and this fire department really needs to change the policy

I think there's a bit of misunderstanding about whether the guy said he'd pay the fee...or "whatever it costs"

 

I keep telling Americans to move to England, but will they listen? Nope.

 

Do you guys have a thing called a Direct Debit?

 

But it rains all the time there.

 

With pyromaniac Americans, that's a good thing.

 

Hey we have a constitutional right to burn things down, article 4, section 2

*edit*
actually apparently that part of the constitution says

ohhhh slavery

 

I know. I was sad enough to check it.

 

hell is a place where one man lets another's house burn for something as utterly worthless as money

 

I've coined a new term: "hippy-crit"

 

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sour...q=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=81aa0f6582b4550

 

Shot Down In Flames....



Cheers Glen.