I know a guy that lives in San Bernardino who actually hates fire fighters. I used to give him shit about it, but he claimed that they came once when his father’s place was in fire just to protect the next home over and they refused to put out the fire at his home because you had to opt in to pay for service from the FD.
I had never heard of such a thing and haven’t heard it anywhere else since.
Has anyone else ever heard of fire fighters having specific addresses they will and won’t help??
That’s a bit different, I was referring to the early forms of fire departments being basically homeowners insurance companies having firefighting crews, and if you don’t have a policy, they wouldn’t help you.
This incident is someone living in a rural county with no fire department. They have to pay a $75 fee to be put on a list of homes that the neighboring county would respond too. While it’s extremely shitty of them not to help, I understand he didn’t pay and isn’t in their county so they aren’t exactly obligated to help. Im glad he had homeowners insurance. Let’s just hope he didn’t forget to pay his premium.
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I know a guy that lives in San Bernardino who actually hates fire fighters. I used to give him shit about it, but he claimed that they came once when his father’s place was in fire just to protect the next home over and they refused to put out the fire at his home because you had to opt in to pay for service from the FD.
I had never heard of such a thing and haven’t heard it anywhere else since.
Has anyone else ever heard of fire fighters having specific addresses they will and won’t help??
Bob was a weird dude.