Do you have to pay your taxes for the police to respond to a call? What a load of baloney! The state should have a law everybody is covered! If it was your house what then. What if the fire was so bad the whole town went up. A bunch of nonsense. I can’t even believe the reply comments on this post. So if your wife is raped by a gang and you did not pay your taxes you get no help. Listen to yourselves! WOW!
I understand your position. We all feel the same way about any home burning down.
In normal circumstances, this would not happened. Something is out of kilter here, and I am beginning to think it's the MR. and the MRS. of the house.
No one has stated, nor asked that I have seen, what started the fire. If true that the homeowner had time to rescue his pets, why didn't he? Where was he when the fire started, or was discovered?
The MR. says he forgot to pay the bill (?), the MRS. says they didn't pay last year either.
The MR. goes to the FIREHOUSE and punches the chief in the nose.
The following are assumptions based on little threads of info here and there:
The MR. was refusing to pay the bill, and it was a point of contention between him and the FD. He and the city officials have had words, many times.
Why don't you try an experiment: run down to Home Depot and get yourself a portable power generator, or an emergency sump pump. Take it to the check-out counter, and inform them that you'll pay for it when it is used the first time.