[Reeses]

Can you imagine the GREED required to charge a Rescue Worker for a bottle water to save another human's life? Very, very sick.

Did the rescue workers donate their time and first aid supplies? Many people did but these ambulance workers probably got paid overtime, and their company is probably preparing a big bill for someone to pay. They don't provide free rescue. Charity should not be demanded, expected, or forced under penalty of shame. It is a gift.

[prov1813man]

You are absolutely correct. Charity is only charity if it contains all the aspects you mention. However, discernment is a quality exercised by the wise and I will exercise mine by dealing accordingly (no money to them ever)with businesses and people who fail to measure up.

[WomanofStandard]

Did the rescue workers donate their time and first aid supplies? Many people did but these ambulance workers probably got paid overtime, and their company is probably preparing a big bill for someone to pay. They don't provide free rescue. Charity should not be demanded, expected, or forced under penalty of shame. It is a gift.

I think the article said it was a private ambulance company and a city ambulance is required to charge...a private company is much more likely to let it go, especially in with the magnitude of this crisis and in the light that SO MANY services are giving away their time, etc., as did many restuarants and stores, gyms, etc. in order to help victims and rescue workers. Greed doesn't motivate rescue workers to go into the death trap they faced that day...not even overtime pay.