Not surprising - Haverford is home of Haverford College, or probably University by now, one of the Holy Three small very liberal colleges in the Philly suburbs - Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr being the other two - the towns in which they’re housed attract loads of ultra liberal professor types along with other “intellectual” types you’d expect to find in a college setting - kind of surprising they’d support any fire company at all - there must be something somewhere in the leftwing orthodoxy about fires being a wholesome and beneficial part of nature and not to be messed with by man......
Excellent post and spot-on analysis.
For the benefit of non-Pennsylvania or New Jersey FReepers, which is most of you: Pennsylvania counties are subdivided into many dozen smaller entities called Townships and Boroughs.
Each of these municipalities is required by State law, on an annual basis, to pass a resolution stating which Fire Company(ies) may provide coverage and which Police department will do likewise. Similarly for EMS.
A municipality can decertify a fire company from responding at any time for any reason. With most Townships governed by three Supervisors, you can alienate one and get a way with it. Alienate two and you’re done.
“Commonwealth” government has a lot of weaknesses and very few strengths.