I guess they're Union firefighters.
They should have paid if they wanted the service.
No sympathy from me. If they don’t want to pay for the service then they should not receive it. Period.
It sounds like they responded. They just didn't do anything. Have to be pretty desperate for a $75 fee to use this approach.
Aren’t fire departments usually funded through taxes?
I suppose they expect to be able to buy car insurance after they wreck their car, too?
So they want these guys to risk their lives to put out their fire, but they dont want to pay them?
Old story , why is it being brought up again? Short story, folks didn’t want fire protection until after their house caught fire. They offered to pay the $75 on the spot. Too late, tough squat
Would have been smarter to put out the fire and bill them $5,000 for the service. Somebody isn’t thinking.
$75 a year for the fire dept. sounds like a bargain - we donate four times that to our local volunteers every Christmas.
THis is idiotic. If they didn’t pay their fee charge them $1000. If they saved their house I’m sure they’d be glad to pay. Waste of everyone’s time and money.
I do not know what to say....
I was a volunteer fireman in my small west Tennessee town.
There was no fee for service, but my last activity was over fifteen years ago.
I just can not imagine watching a home burn and not doing anything to save it.
Surely there would be other options for payment in such situations.
Was this news last year or is this another incident by the South Fulton Fire Department?
The couple made the right choice by not paying the $75.00 per year to the fire department to simply protect a trailer house.
First, the homeowners insurance should cover much of the loss and second, the fire department would have likely not saved the trailer house from being destroyed even if they had put out the fire.
Do they pay taxes? If so, there should not be an additional fee. Isn’t that what taxes are supposedly payed for?
wow. stunning. both the lack of humanity and the statist drones believing that the gov’t won’t withhold their healthcare when the need it.
The family apparently didn’t think protection was worth $75.00 a year.
Looks like they may have miscalculated.
I’d like to see our once great independent self reliant affluent middle class nation get greater. It ain’t happening today. Subsequent generations are doing worse. We’re fighting wars that don’t benefit us. Our products are made in China. Now we have a Post Office on the brink of bankruptcy, and fire fighters that don’t put out fires.
We can put the blame all over the map but that doesn’t fix it for our kids and grand kids. The fact is the USA is going downhill and that needs reversed now.
Did anyone check to see if the homeowners were Republicans?