Talk:Elmore County, Alabama

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Hello, there is an article here, http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1320, that might be useful. Thanks, Justin --Duboiju (talk) 17:46, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Truthful Comment About Fire Protection

I love this little pile of BS that was dropped on the page: "In the late 1990s voters voted to pass a mandatory fire fee for (volunteer)fire services. All citizens pay this same fee regardless of valuation of the property or income levels. The lower income citizens protect the upper valued properties low insurance rates even though it is likely manufactured homes can't be saved in a major fire."

The "mandatory fee" was a whole $25 per year, now $35. The owners of the house trailers paid their fee if they bought a tag, which most did not.

I thought Wikipedia was supposed to be free of partisan crap, but it looks the author of this little snippet certainly has an axe to grind and cannot use good grammar or punctuation when doing so.

JW (talk) 17:04, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

I agree, and since it is unsourced POV, I've removed it. Altairisfar (talk) 17:21, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Good Call. Many Thanks.

Disclaimer: I am a homeowner in the county and was a volunteer firefighter, both prior to and after the passage of the fee bill. The monies raised by the assessment certainly helped tremendously in providing us with safe firefighting equipment. Personally, I would like to meet the person who added the comment face-to-face and let them tell me that their $25 was too much pay as to provide me with decent equipment.

We did managed to save some mobile homes and their contents in the 18 years I was active as a firefighter.

JW (talk) 23:59, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Do you not also work for a firefighting equipment company JW along with your volunteering? It seems in favor of Fire equipment companies the current setup to continue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlabamaSouthern (talk • contribs) 15:25, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Truth is the truth rather popular or not. The total cost is $50(proof http://www.elmorecofire.org/members_Wetumpka.html & http://www.legislature.state.al.us/searchableinstruments/2005RS/Bills/HB412.htm). All mobile homes not exempt under the homestead act are required by law to pay the fee regardless of political stance so it has nothing to do with partisanship but it is a fact.

"A key area identified as a potential problem in mobile homes was fire safety. Various statistical sources indicated that while the incidence rate was approximately the same, the injury and life hazard and the extent of property damage per incident were three to five times greater than for conventional residences." http://fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/fire79/PDF/f79011.pdf

"Personally, I would like to meet the person who added the comment face-to-face and let them tell me that their $25 was too much pay as to provide me with decent equipment." No problem with safe equipment, training and collecting a fee to buy that equipment, but if a fee is mandatory using government law, then a Fire Department should be part of a City/County Government system and have the oversight and responsibilities of any City or County system that is not volunteer. I have amended the edit to contain only fact.AlabamaSouthern (talk) 14:01, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

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