No money? Too bad. No bailouts for the trailer trash!
Oh, Merry Christmas!
Where I grew up we had range fires. No “fire department” although there was scattered fire fighting equipment that locals could run get in the case of a fire. We all went out, with our own vehicles, brooms, etc, and fought these fires, little kiddos (of which I was one) up. We gathered around neighbors homesteads to save them. We never asked for payment. We never asked for reimbursement for the lost tires or brooms, etc. We never considered if the neighbor whose home we were saving was a “good” neighbor or not.
Untwist your panties and consider this. I don’t know for sure but I can make a general statement about trailer fires. The way they are constructed which is not very robust and since they use a lot of synthetic materials, they tend to burn rather quickly. Assuming that the fire building is 15 miles from the fire station and the volunteers are not sitting around waiting for the call, you know at home doing typical family, home and work related activities,we could hopefully agree that from the time of dispatch until the time arriving on scene would be 20-25 minutes? Does that seem reasonable to you?
Imagine then if it takes 25 minutes to get on-scene how much progress the fire has made. Probably there is nothing left to save at this point. A tough break and hard reality but structure fires move quickly and trailers don’t have the fire rating that a regular house does.
So this whole arguement is really over a pile of wet ashes vs. a pile of dry ashes. That is really basically what it comes down to. Really, if you want to live in a trailer and you desire a positive outcome in the event of fire, locate your trailer within a mile of the fire station and install a sprinkler system.