Thread: Homeowner Who didn't pay fire fee

What you are seeing, folks, is a replay of decisions made in MOST of this nation in the 1700's.


Go find out what " Fire Insurance" originally was.

Benjamin Franklin INVENTED the municipal city fire department.

http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/philadelphia/fire.htm

Prior to 1735, if a building caught fire, it pretty much was "toast".

Old Ben Franklin organized, in 1735, the "Union Fire Company" in Philidelphia, whereby men all came together, bought their own buckets, and promised that in the event of a fire, they woud come to help put it out.

Ben Franklin (A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER) establed the "UNION" fire company, and members would all pay a small amount - chip in- to belong. If you paid, you got a shield to place on your door, saying you had paid in. So if your place burned down, members of YOUR FIRE COMPANY would come put it out.

Competing fire companies then developed and existed in towns. You could have two houses, side by side, one covered by one company, another covered by a DIFFERENT company. If your house caught fire, people would check which company covered them. If you had no coverge, your house burned to the ground.

By the early 1800's, society decided, in most cities, that instead of PRIVATE companies to put out fires, society would benefit more BY COVERING ALL HOUSES, and levying a tax to pay for it.

So here we are-

this small town in RED-STATE part of Tennessee, acting just like it' back in the 1700's all over again.


Remember this folks-

One group of people wants to "Take back the country", back to what it was in the 1700's.

The other group of people wants to move the country forward.

The choices could not be clearer that THIS example.

Originally Posted by alevin

Eh well, I don't live in the timber. think rural long narrow subdivision-old, houses close together, lots of landscaping trees, surrounded by undeveloped unmanaged grassland on one side-open hillside, with haymeadows on the other side. not worried about the hay meadows-they get lots of water, grazing and cutting. Its the vacant lots unmanaged, housing adjacency and open hillside 2 lots over, that create the concerns for rapid spread, especially with wind.

I hadnt heard about the blue gel, would be wonderful for a summer cabin in the woods used intermittently. thanks for that one, will look into it further.

Edit: Deleted, got off point.

We need a www.BeltwayTalk.com autoforward for these discussions.........

Originally Posted by Frixxxx

We need a www.BeltwayTalk.com autoforward for these discussions.........

Frixxxx, OK by me to move discussion to the Beltway. Didn't intend for this to be political.

Originally Posted by alevin

I hadnt heard about the blue gel, would be wonderful for a summer cabin in the woods used intermittently. thanks for that one, will look into it further.

PS- It's only colored blue for the demo video. It dries colorless.
The link has a video, looks pretty cool to me. We have quite a bit of wooded growth around us as well.
Every year the county sends out reminders about keeping a growth buffer around our houses for fire safety.