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[delfi_waveform]

Okay, I have heard a story of a fire department in Tennessee failing to respond to a house fire and only positioning apparatus (i. e. fire trucks) to protect surround homes that had paid their dues (read protection money). This is shit! You do not become a firefighter for money but to help, to fucking serve and protect! Every firefighter on that

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[delphi_t]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJyjNiL4zZg&feature=recentlik

[delfi_waveform]

This is the type of shit that erodes the public's trust in their local fire department. :(

[delphi_t]

I thought being covered by emergency services was something of a right in every developed country. I mean.. if the fire department can pull this, what stops the city from pulling this on paramedic/police coverage?

So you got shot? Oh, let me see.. nope, didn't pay the fee, sorry.

[delfi_waveform]

My thoughts exactly. What this amounts to is extortion which is illegal in most developed nations. It's not even a Republican or Democrat issue which the video makes it out to be. It is a "This is wrong" issue. I would have quit that department right then and there and will if mine ever becomes that way. We wonder why firefighters are ridiculed? Departments like that are why! :(

Every firefighter on that department needs to be fired and the department chief arrested and tried for criminal negligence, but I would bet that citizens of that county have to pay "protection money" to the sheriff/police, too!

In my county, you do have to pay an emergency services tax and you do have to pay the hospitals for ambulance services, but, we respond even if you don't pay those things.