Posted on 10/05/2010 3:20:42 PM PDT by Nachum
Tennessee house in ashes after homeowner 'forgot' to pay $75 fee
Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 fee.
Gene Cranick of Obion County and his family lost all of their possessions in the Sept. 29 fire, along with three dogs and a cat.
"They could have been saved if they had put water on it, but they didn't do it," Cranick told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.
The fire started when the Cranicks' grandson was burning trash near the family home. As it grew out of control, the Cranicks called 911, but the fire department from the nearby city of South Fulton would not respond.
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As far as I am concerned these ‘firefighters’ weren’t firefighters - they don’t deserve the name.
“They could have been saved if they had put water on it, but they didn’t do it,”
Or if you had paid the bill. If no one pays, there’s no FD. Now I bet everyone will pay
3 Dogs and a cat died because these lazy a**es did not turn on the water. The people offered to pay. They were jerks but they let their pets dies. No wonder that huge mosque is been built in TN.
Don’t they have property taxes down there?
And, if they do, isn’t the receiver, in this case, their local government, required to provide the service that they contracted for?
The fee for people in rural areas is quite common. It is like an insurance policy. You either buy it and hope you don’t need it or you don’t buy it and pay the consequences.
The young guy sounds like he may be a few dozen IQ points short of being average. First, he sets the house on fire by burning trash dangerously close to the house. Then he assaults the chief of the fire department.
I wonder if the family will complain to the judge when the punk gets sentence to a year or so in the can?
What happens to people who don’t buy insurance? Why should this homeowner expect something for nothing? The townspeople are assessed for firefighting and out-of-town residents can pay a fee to use those fire services also. This guy didn’t buy in and got unlucky. Its no ones fault but his.
Did anyone else note the caption at the top of the story?
It’s the Tea Party’s Fault!
If it wasn’t for that nasty tea party, this home wouldn’t have burned. In fact, I’ll go a touch farther and say tea partiers want EVERYONE’S home to burn! And they want the old sick folk to die! Yes!
In fact, let’s go out and burn people’s houses!
These men are great firefighters, and men of honor. The freeloaders however have learned a very important lesson of life. Something you must have missed.
The residents are required to pay $75 annually if they want service, this guy did not pay, therfore, he did not get any service, pretty simple. I bet next time he won’t “forget” to pay.
Yeah. These guys are as bad as those horrible greedy insurance companies that won’t sell you a life insurance policy if you are dead or about to die.
What if when you buy or build your home, the fire protection is part of your property taxes? And then in greed the entity puts fire fighting outside the tax realm and bills separately? Like lots of crap these days?
See #11
You are totally missing the damn point and are comparing apples to oranges. The man did NOT pay for the service, therefore, he did not get the service, pretty damn simple.
You my FRiend are not using your head, you are running on emotions. This is a rural area,, they pay for services, this guy did NOT pay, what part don’t you understand, if you don’t pay, you don’t get the service. Stop being emotional and use your brain.
They got exactly what was coming to them, which is nothing.
Does this mean that if you don’t pay the school assessment of your property tax, they won’t educate your kids?
Bingo. This is what home schoolers want.
I don’t think so.
“Cranick says he told the operator he would pay whatever is necessary to have the fire put out.”
If this was known to, and refused by, the fire department officials, their decision seems immoral to me, as the home-owner’s offer would account for any possible financial debt-obligation owed by him to the fire department.
A simple change in the county ordinances should revise the local laws to say: “pay the annual fee or be billed directly for cost of services when you need us”.
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