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Here's another story of a homeowner who didn't pay the subscription fee for fire protection, believing that, if he had a fire, the fire department would come anyway.
He was wrong.
This follows the same line of thinking of districts who shut down their departments, believing that, if they needed fire protection, they could rely on mutual aid.
What is wrong with that thinking?
Read the story from Tennessee: http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/local/Firefighters-watch-as-home-bur...
TCSS.
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Permalink Reply by Vic Silverfish on
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Aficioando? Mate I'm an American citizen! Grew up inside the DC Beltway. I moved to Australia somewhere in my mid 30s!
I remember Regan's term well. That's when the neighborhood I grew up in became a total hellhole from crack and almost every artist I knew contracted AIDS - a word Regan refused to even utter for years after that disease started is slow burn through America.
Regarding the surplus, check out page 24 (page 28 if you include the introduction) of this document.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2008/pdf...
You'll note the brief (1998-2001) swing into positive territory. I think the last time we did that was in 1969. Good job Bill! Now if you could keep your ding-ding out of the interns, that would be great.
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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Not where Obion County is concerned.
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So what? Oil refineries, chemical plants, nuclear power plants, and other high value properties have had their own fire departments - in some cases for many decades.
If a high-value property wants better fire protection - or more specialized fire protection - than the local FD provides, then providing it themselves is a reasonable option, particularly when it's a simple business investment that more than pays for itself.
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Exactly, Art.
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NFPA 1001 is a professional qualification standard for firefighters.
It is not a public policy for how fire protection is provided, so it's not pertinent here.
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Permalink Reply by Gregory Borg on
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Batman!
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The insurance companies know. One of the local insurance agents had a hand in keeping the status quo the last time the county looked at providing tax-supported fire protection.
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Permalink Reply by Jay E. Travis on
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True True but I can see that we needed a speed bump on the other hand It would be nice for someone to come along and piss us off again we need a jumpstart.
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Yea, but you are the chief;)
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That's not how it works in Obion County. They don't have a fire department.
The subscribers contract individually with a neighboring city for their fire protection.
The homeowner in question intentionally didn't pay the fee.
South Fulton FD did the right thing by protecting the property of those who did pay the fee.
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Luechtefeld on
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Ben, I'm sorry but you are dead wrong - it has everything to do with those notions. This is a glimpse of of the future of the fire service under perfect libertarianism, an ideology that takes rugged individualism as its north star.
In areas where this political ideology holds influence, homeowners who can't - or won't - pay for service will watch their homes go up in smoke, just as Mr. Cranick did.
Lest you think I'm absolving Mr. Cranick of responsibility, I'm not - it is safe to assume he voted and paid for exactly the system he got.
My comments - like Mr. Olbermann's - are aimed at exposing this larger truth to a wider audience, an audience that is too focused on the narrow question of whether the responding crew did the right thing.
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Art, there is no functional distinction between the phrase "let 'er burn" and Stossel's endorsement of South Fulton's tactics on scene. Stossel's exact phrase may have been different, but that is a distinction without a difference.
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