Fahrenheit 451 And Your House: Let It Burn

This isn't the first time that firefighters in Obion county in the U.S. state of Tennessee have let a families home burn to the ground because they failed to pay a $75 dollar service fee to the county. What would those firefighters have done if some had been trapped in either of those burning homes? Just stood around and watch them die in fire? Or, would have made an effort to save that person? Fortunately neither of those families had to find out.


    

“In an emergency, the first thing you think of, ‘Call 9-1-1,” homeowner Vicky Bell said. Firefighters came out. Bell said, “9-1-1 said they were in fact dispatched and they showed that they were on the scene.” But once on the scene, they only watched. “You could look out my mom’s trailer and see the trucks sitting at a distance,” Bell said. For Bell, that sight was almost as disturbing as the fire itself. “We just wished we could’ve gotten more out,” Bell said.

    
Mayor David Crocker is fine with letting some of the citizens of Obion County have their homes burn down.