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Does the fire department invoice for putting out a fire?

Posted on 1/29/17 at 8:43 pm
Posted by Grassy1
Member since Oct 2009
6275 posts
Posted on 1/29/17 at 8:43 pm
It'd be nice to know our taxpayer dollars are enough to not have to,

but like the fire that burned for several hours at a business in Prairieville last week, that was a lot resources expended. If so, I would think insurance would cover it.

Just curious. Who knows?
Posted by Chad504boy
4 posts
Member since Feb 2005
167020 posts
Posted on 1/29/17 at 8:46 pm to
Fire departments don't fund themselves
Posted by Golfer
Member since Nov 2005
75052 posts
Posted on 1/29/17 at 8:47 pm to
Property taxes and calendar fundraisers.
This post was edited on 1/29/17 at 8:48 pm
Posted by Sao
East Texas Piney Woods
Member since Jun 2009
66133 posts
Posted on 1/29/17 at 8:52 pm to

Pancakes, Chili and red lights
Posted by The White Wolf
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2009
558 posts
Posted on 1/29/17 at 8:57 pm to
No. There is no invoice. Which is why your votes when our taxes come on ballot are very very appreciated
Posted by BottomlandBrew
Member since Aug 2010
27235 posts
Posted on 1/29/17 at 9:01 pm to
They didn't charge me when they put out a fire at my house. Truth be told, I was kind of naive about things like that and frazzled from the fire and straight up asked them when I should expect a bill. They just laughed and told me to have a better day and left. Good people.
Posted by OldHickory
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2012
10602 posts
Posted on 1/29/17 at 9:04 pm to
My father had a large fire at his business ten years ago. Never got a bill. Thank God for firefighters.
Posted by PowerTool
The dark side of the road
Member since Dec 2009
21281 posts
Posted on 1/29/17 at 9:11 pm to
You can get billed for false alarms.
Posted by Eightballjacket
Member since Jan 2016
7352 posts
Posted on 1/29/17 at 9:31 pm to
Do you remember the firemen scene from Gangs of New York?
Posted by AlonsoWDC
Memphis, where it ain't Ten-a-Key
Member since Aug 2014
8789 posts
Posted on 1/29/17 at 10:53 pm to
Back around 2010, some a-hole in South Fulton, TN, let a guy's house burn to the ground because the resident didn't pay that year. South Fulton is a sister city to Fulton, KY, and is divided by the state line. Fulton is your usual small town shithole but whatever charms and graces it has ends in South Fulton. When I was a junior in HS, we had a football playoff game up there. As our buses are rolling through a residential neighborhood near the school, we saw a sign in a yard that read

BEWARE OF
LOCAL NEGROES

I shite you not.
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
28349 posts
Posted on 1/30/17 at 2:47 am to
Do you know any firemen? I do,and every one of those SOBS are crazy firebugs. You could probably get them to pay you for coming to put out your fire.
Posted by ElderTiger
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2010
7036 posts
Posted on 1/30/17 at 6:31 am to
During the floods this past summer, I had to threaten to call the sheriff on some guys that were doing donuts in a boat in the high water behind my house. The wake from their stupidity was starting to hit the side of my house. Turns out it was a district fire chief from St. George. The guy was a total idiot.
Posted by Pectus
Internet
Member since Apr 2010
67302 posts
Posted on 1/30/17 at 6:59 am to
When do they send their yearly rate?
Posted by damnedoldtigah
Middle of Louisiana
Member since Jan 2014
4275 posts
Posted on 1/30/17 at 1:39 pm to
A number of municipalities will invoice for showing up for a false alarm, or a fire such as a brushfire determined to be your fault. But that's usually about the extent. Depends on the fire department.
Posted by pbro62
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2016
11608 posts
Posted on 1/30/17 at 6:44 pm to
Seriously how do some of you survive?
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
114185 posts
Posted on 1/30/17 at 6:47 pm to
Are you seriously asking if the fire department charges for putting out fires? They are funded by tax dollars. The insurance doesn't pay for people to put out fires, they pay out to the people whose property burned down.

Its just like police. Do the police charge you every time they have to direct traffic or some shite?
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