Tea Party less Gov.- Firefighters refuse to put out fire

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I'll extend that line of thinking, higher value properties should get priority to your department because your moral obligations are relative to the taxable income received from said properties. As such, property values should dictate where your stations are so that you can fulfill your tax revenue determined moral obligation to provide faster response times.

I said nothing in my response regarding taxable value. When stations are built it is with response times in mind, regardless of taxable value.

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1) The trailer was already burning and response time isn't as quick as when you have a fire dept down the street. There wasn't a whole lot they could do. Animals had died, no one was in the house, sometimes it's best to just let it burn. No need to charge the guy money for something you may not be able to fix at that point, because then it turns into "THOSE BASTARDS CHARGED ME EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDN'T SUCCESSFULLY PUT OUT THE FIRE IN TIME TO SAVE MY CAT!", at which point people like RObansX come on and complain about how the Neocons were just being greedy for charging this poor man after he had just lost everything.

Since this was a rural area, I have to ask if there was public water available.

Where my parents live there is no public water, the fire company has to shuttle tanker trucks back into town to fill up and return to the scene to provide water for the pumper trucks. There was a barn fire across the street from my parent, 15 local fire companies responded, and all they did was pump water on the houses and trees between the houses and let the barn and a neighboring garage burn, because even with a constant shuttling of tankers, there just wasn't anything they could do to save it and the houses.

If this is the same situation, I can see them emtying the truck(s) out on the first house and then not being able to get more water in time to save the second one, even if they had wanted to.