Fire Chief watches house burn over $75 tax

[Byte Stryke]

Nothing knee-jerk in my reaction at all, and I know you are not insinuating that either. I just want my stance in this to be clear. You wear a badge, you take an oath, you do NOT have the option of picking and choosing who get's your services, period. Tax, fees, bla bla bla... You swore to serve. Emergency public services are not free enterprise, they are PUBLIC. I don't care if you are volunteer or if you are county payroll. Absolutely disgusting display of lack of morality. This fucking douchebag showed up, put out the fire threatening the neighbor, and then stood there and watched another man's life burn to the ground over an unpaid $75 fee. NO! You put the fire out and let the county figure out how to deal with the fee/payment for the services. Disgusting...

it wasn't "fucking douche-bag's" call, it is the law, Policy created by the officials elected into office by the people and he could probably have gone to jail for misappropriation of government services and equipment or some shit. and I can only imagine the shitstorm had a firefighter been injured while working that scene.

I Disagree with the policy but I Don't so much blame the man.
Just another cog in the system.

I have a PERFECT Solution.
Lets start a COUNTY Fire service and increase the countytaxes about 8% to pay for all of the individual trucks, property, the Firefighters, training, Insurance, etc etc etc....

As he said, The FIREFIGHTERS tried to replace the Subscription system with a TAX System, but as soon as people hear "TAX" they panic and knee-jerk and scream NO!

long and short, I Agree, he should have paid his $75.
I don't fault the department. Someone has to pay the bills, and the LAW Says....