Well, they are spot on. Some rural areas of the country have fire protection by subscription. There are cases where the fire company came to a fire at a nonsubscribers home and watched it burn. They were supposedly there in case fire spread to subscriber’s homes.
DavidHuieGreen said, about 15 hours ago@neverenoughgold“Did you know the “velociraptor” was actually discovered by Steven Spielberg?”.Today’s April 2, not April 1..You know I said this with my tongue in my cheek, or did you?.Anyway, it did bring about some interesting comments; even yours…
Around here Indian Reserves generally don’t have their own fire departments, so they contract with a nearby town for service. Except that sometimes the Reserves, through corruption, mismanagement or Federal government cuts, fall behind on their payments and sometimes even have their service contract cancelled by the local municipality. In February two toddlers died in a fire on a Reserve near Loon Lake Saskatchewan. The local (volunteer) fire department refused to respond to the alarm because the municipality had not been paid for the service for some months.
I was in West Texas for Christmas one year, and it was hot and dry, and we got the call that our cousins’ place at Winan’s Creek was facing a brush fire. We piled in the pickup and hustled over the three miles or so. We had brooms and garbage cans full of water (which I replenished at the creek), and there were enough of us that we triumphed before the volunteer fire department came.
They slowed down long enough to see that things were okay, and we cheered them loudly as they sped off to the next fire.
That evening, Grand-Dad went over and poured water on all the fence posts, telling me as he did that a spark could slumber in one of those for a long time before flaring up again. Good to know.
derdave969 over 9 years ago
Well, they are spot on. Some rural areas of the country have fire protection by subscription. There are cases where the fire company came to a fire at a nonsubscribers home and watched it burn. They were supposedly there in case fire spread to subscriber’s homes.
jtviper7 over 9 years ago
It’s a pretty good T.V. show…
neverenoughgold over 9 years ago
DavidHuieGreen said, about 15 hours ago@neverenoughgold“Did you know the “velociraptor” was actually discovered by Steven Spielberg?”.Today’s April 2, not April 1..You know I said this with my tongue in my cheek, or did you?.Anyway, it did bring about some interesting comments; even yours…
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 9 years ago
never, you know I love you. ( I love most people, somebody’s gotta do it. )
bmckee over 9 years ago
Around here Indian Reserves generally don’t have their own fire departments, so they contract with a nearby town for service. Except that sometimes the Reserves, through corruption, mismanagement or Federal government cuts, fall behind on their payments and sometimes even have their service contract cancelled by the local municipality. In February two toddlers died in a fire on a Reserve near Loon Lake Saskatchewan. The local (volunteer) fire department refused to respond to the alarm because the municipality had not been paid for the service for some months.
Kip W over 9 years ago
I was in West Texas for Christmas one year, and it was hot and dry, and we got the call that our cousins’ place at Winan’s Creek was facing a brush fire. We piled in the pickup and hustled over the three miles or so. We had brooms and garbage cans full of water (which I replenished at the creek), and there were enough of us that we triumphed before the volunteer fire department came.
They slowed down long enough to see that things were okay, and we cheered them loudly as they sped off to the next fire.
That evening, Grand-Dad went over and poured water on all the fence posts, telling me as he did that a spark could slumber in one of those for a long time before flaring up again. Good to know.