Firefighters let home burn down because owner didn't pay $75
Vicky Bell wasn’t surprised that fire trucks cruised into her neighborhood after her home went up in flames — after all, she did dial 9-1-1. What did shock the Tennessean woman was that the emergency crew never came to her aid.Instead, says Bell, they parked their engines down the street and watched her home burn to the ground.
Bell and her boyfriend live in a rural town just outside of the small city of South Fulton, TN — so rural, in fact, that residents in her neighborhood rely on the South Fulton trucks to battle blazes for them. Even though they are fully equipped to do so, however, the South Fulton Fire Department doesn’t act unless residents from adjacent towns pay a $75 annual subscription for protection..... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/home-pay-fire-bell-299/
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ang kapitalistang pamahalaan ng kalbong agila. walang puso. de bayad ang 'serbisyo.' no pay, no protection...they'll even watch you burn to oblivion
"In the case of Bell and her boyfriend, the crew was indeed dispatched to the scene. When they realized that their customers weren’t paying patrons, however, the responding firefighters sat back and watched.
""You could look out my mom's trailer and see the trucks sitting at a distance," Bells tells WSMV-TV.
"While she watched the crew set by idly, her mobile home and most of her possessions were obliterated. She tells KFVS-TV that she was only minutes away from being lost in the blaze herself."
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