[RabidBartender]

"Or, it could be that this man just never found the time, or spare money, to pay the bill, and kept procrastinating in the belief that his house wasn’t likely to catch fire soon, and now he’s mad at the firemen because reality happened. "

From what I saw on tv yesterday, the wife (or mother) of the homeowner stated they had "forgotten" to pay the fee.

[listenhillary]

They don’t place much value in their property if they forgot.

My dad didn’t ever forget to buy a fire tag. It would have been irresponsible to put his family at risk. Government has made being irresponsible not such a big deal. Get pregnant before finishing school? We’ll take care of you.

Rewarding irresponsible behavior? We are rewarded with more irresponsible behavior.

[UCANSEE2]

From what I saw on tv yesterday, the wife (or mother) of the homeowner stated they had "forgotten" to pay the fee.

Yes. She also said she doesn't blame the firefighters.

The fire was started by Gene Cranick's GRANDSON, who apparently set some barrels on fire that were NEAR the house.

Apparenly, Mr. Cranick watched the barrels burn until the fire reached the house, and did nothing but bitch to the Firefighters. Even though the whole family had plenty of time to evacuate the house ( the fire didn't start INSIDE the house), they somehow couldn't get the pets out of a DOUBLE WIDE TRAILER.