Firefighters Let Home Burn for $75

[Dan The Man]

Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 fee.

Gene Cranick of Obion County and his family lost all of their possessions in the Sept. 29 fire, along with three dogs and a cat.

"They could have been saved if they had put water on it, but they didn't do it," Cranick told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.

The fire started when the Cranicks' grandson was burning trash near the family home. As it grew out of control, the Cranicks called 911, but the fire department from the nearby city of South Fulton would not respond.

"We wasn't on their list," he said the operators told him.

Read the full report here

Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39516346/ns/us_news-life/

 

[Joshua Farrell]

Not a good idea to copy and paste the entire article. 😛

 

[USHost247]

Yeah, saw this on the news.

 

[MissTake]

I've edited out the OP but please remember we do not like back seat moderation here at FP, please use the report button if you feel that something is wrong with a post or thread in future, Thanks 😉

 

[Mr. Duck]

Thats just mean

 

[USHost247]

They are going to be looking at papers from a law suit. 😉

 

[Deleted member 1609]

🙂 Tenessee don't have no socialist free fire department.

 

[Justin M]

Because $75 will financially rape the FD, of course. What a crock. What if somebody had been inside the house?

 

[Deleted member 1609]

What if somebody had been inside the house?

Them firefighters ain't gonna save none of them poor people. You got any idea how un-American that is?

 

[agentmanningctu]

Because $75 will financially rape the FD, of course. What a crock. What if somebody had been inside the house?

Ok. So stop paying. Why doesn't everyone stop paying, with that mentality? Oh, okay. No fire department. Now we all burn to death.

Good plan.

We have the fees for a reason. Sure, it sucks, but if everyone was this stupid, we'd all be dead.

 

[about lee]

Im glad to be in the UK, Our emergency's services are free in a way because we pay taxes, Does the US not have this?

 

[Justin M]

Because $75 will financially rape the FD, of course. What a crock. What if somebody had been inside the house?

Ok. So stop paying. Why doesn't everyone stop paying, with that mentality? Oh, okay. No fire department. Now we all burn to death.

Good plan.

We have the fees for a reason. Sure, it sucks, but if everyone was this stupid, we'd all be dead.

I can deal with the fee. But the guy offered to pay whatever price the FD named and they still refused. Thankfully most towns and cities have socialized emergency services. In the town I grew up in, the ambulances were run by a private company and you would have to pay them, but only after they came and did their job.

 

[Abnormalist]

I'm from Tennessee and this is still being talked about on the local news. It happened a few hundred miles from me but it still hits home. Luckily most fire departments don't do this type of BS.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Probably not the best way of doing things, I can see why the FD did that. What they should have done was put out the fire, send a bill afterward. If you say "They should have put out the fire anyway for free!" what about all the people that did pay the fee. Why should they pay if they can get the same service for free?