First, let me just say hiii to everyone on the forums. I’ve been coming here the last two years and have learned a lot so far, so thank you.
Okay, I was wondering what firefighters thought of a situation that has been going on in my town for the last couple of months.
Basically, my town has county islands, which are unincorporated parts of our town, that were here before the town was. They have always received their fire service from Rural/Metro. In October, Rural/Metro pulled out of the county islands, (I think from lack of subscriptions) leaving county islands with no fire service. The county islanders, had the option to annex into the town, or form there own fire district. For some reason, they were not able to form there own fire district, and most of the county islanders did not annex. The county islanders tried to pass a legislation that would require the town to provide fire service, but that didn’t work either. (Sorry, about being so vague but this all started a while ago and I can’t find the articles anymore.)
Now since October the county islanders have had no fire service, and the mayor has said that the town will not respond to emergencies on county islands. Last week my town did respond to a house fire on a county island but it was in another town and it was for a mutual aid agreement that they used to have. The mayor was mad and just said that the homeowners got lucky.
I hope to be a firefighter one day, but I’m not sure what I think of this situation, and was hoping maybe I could get some insight from firefighters on this issue.
Thanks for any responses in advance
Okay, I was wondering what firefighters thought of a situation that has been going on in my town for the last couple of months.
Basically, my town has county islands, which are unincorporated parts of our town, that were here before the town was. They have always received their fire service from Rural/Metro. In October, Rural/Metro pulled out of the county islands, (I think from lack of subscriptions) leaving county islands with no fire service. The county islanders, had the option to annex into the town, or form there own fire district. For some reason, they were not able to form there own fire district, and most of the county islanders did not annex. The county islanders tried to pass a legislation that would require the town to provide fire service, but that didn’t work either. (Sorry, about being so vague but this all started a while ago and I can’t find the articles anymore.)
Now since October the county islanders have had no fire service, and the mayor has said that the town will not respond to emergencies on county islands. Last week my town did respond to a house fire on a county island but it was in another town and it was for a mutual aid agreement that they used to have. The mayor was mad and just said that the homeowners got lucky.
I hope to be a firefighter one day, but I’m not sure what I think of this situation, and was hoping maybe I could get some insight from firefighters on this issue.
Thanks for any responses in advance
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