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IAFF Condemns Tennessee House Fire Policy
TODD FAULKNER
WPSD
Reprinted with Permission
PADUCAH - A local fire department's decision to let a home burn is attracting national attention and sparking national debate.
A firefighters group is lashing out against members of their own. The International Association of Fire Fighters is condemning the South Fulton Fire Department for their actions last week.
Fire crews refused to put out a house fire in Obion County, Tennessee, because the owner did not pay the $75 coverage fee. The Association's general president released a statement Tuesday on the city's policy of subscription fire service.
The IAFF statement reads, in part, "We condemn South Fulton's ill-advised, unsafe policy. Professional, career fire fighters shouldn't be forced to check a list before running out the door to see which homeowners have paid up. They get in their trucks and go."
The statement also reads, "Because of South Fulton's pay-to-play policy, fire fighters were ordered to stand and watch a family lose its home."
Todd Cranick, son of Gene Cranick, tells Local 6 that his parents have received several thousand dollars from the insurance company to cover immediate costs. Cranick went on to say that the insurance plans on covering all damage and property losses. Right now, there is no fund set up to help the Cranick family.
The IAFF is headquartered in Washington, D.C., representing nearly 300,000 full-time professional firefighters and paramedics.
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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Paul,
You've gotten a straight answer on what happened more than once.
Feel free to look at the dozens of pages in this thread for more examples of that straight answer.
You apparently just don't like the straight. That's not the same thing as not getting it.
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Permalink Reply by Herb Genelly III on
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Olberman is as much a source for unbiased news as O'Reilly, Beck and Geraldo..LOL
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Teel on
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after this happened i suggest starting a fire dept in that county so residents like the cranicks don't have this happen again. when the hell did fire protection start charging, it's bad enough EMS in my area is charging patients to go to the hospital, and now this. what's next is pd going to charge residents for calls now?
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Permalink Reply by John Crabbe on
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Seems you're a little behind the eight ball on this one Kevin.
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The difference is that O'Reilly, Beck, and Geraldo don't try to sell themselves as reporters - they are opinion shows. Olberman sold his show as news, when it was clearly opinion.
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A little?
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No so true. They've managed to blur the journalistic lines, and there's plenty of articles on this issue alone. Their parent company has donated thousands of dollars to Conservative PAC's, and I'm pretty sure folks that work for them report the news.
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Not accurate, Herb. Having a parent company own a network that hosts both opinion and news shows doesn't mean that the opinion shows and the news shows are the same people.
News reporters that work for a parent company that donates to a PAC is one thing (Fox). News reporters that personally donate to a PAC (Olberman) are something else alltogether.
As for articles on that issue, those are also just someone's opinion unless they are articles describing scientific research in peer-reviewed academic journals.
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Ben,
The parent company of ALL other major networks do not contribute to PAC's, with the exception of Rupert Murdock and Fox, for the very same reason you state. Fox contributes to PAC's, reporters work for FOX. How can the coverage be unbiased? It doesn't pass the smell test, but Fox doesn't care. It's not good or bad, it's just factual.
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You're theory is overreaching.
Olberman DIRECTLY contributed his own money.
There is both correlation and causation to his suspension there.
No Fox reporter is alleged to have done the same.
There is neither correlation nor causation there.
I'd have to see some evidence before I'd believe that none of the other major networks don't contribute to PACs or political campaigns, particularly in MSNBC's case.
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"Simple enough"??? Not even close. For starters, it's impossible to understand what, if anything, you are trying to ask.
Secondly, I'm not a volunteer firefighter, I'm not from the area in question, and I live and work several hundred miles away.
Third, I don't work for a subscription-based fire department, but that doesn't prevent me from understanding either the situation or the facts behind it. I don't think I can say the same for you, unfortunately.
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