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Could someone point me in the direction of one of these two people i need to get a hold a member here that has no way of contact/info that i can find.

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Go down to the site comment forum and post there that is one of the easy ways to talk to them

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MY brother just called me and told me that he had to pay $65.00 a year for the STATE of MO FIRE DEP,
If his house cought on fire it would cost him $500.00 an hour to fight the fire and his
STATE FARM INS. would not cover it if he did not pay his $65.00 for that year.
What is up with that? I have never heard of that before in my life.
MANY THANKS:
JR.FRYE

MY brother just called me and told me that he had to pay $65.00 a year for the STATE of MO FIRE DEP,
If his house cought on fire it would cost him $500.00 an hour to fight the fire and his
STATE FARM INS. would not cover it if he did not pay his $65.00 for that year.
What is up with that? I have never heard of that before in my life.
MANY THANKS:
JR.FRYE

I have no idea on that other then it maybe a city thing. I know any thing like that is included in my taxes in my area

In some areas no taxes are collected for fire protection. In many of those areas fire protection is provided by fire prtection associations. That is a group of people who pay membership dues to the association in order to provide equipment and training for fire fighters. In many cases fire fighters are volunteers who recieve no pay for their time to train and fight fires. Any one who lives in an area like this who does not pay dues can be charged up to 500 dollars an hour for services provide by such a group. I do not know what an insurance company will pay or not pay on a fire call. I know in our area if we respond to a vehicle fire and they are not a member(travling through, trucking companies and such) we submitt a bill and insurance companies have paid that. 65 dollars a year is about everage for most of the fire districs that I know of. Tell you brother to get to his county court house and see what didtrict he belongs to. Fire protection districts are registered with the county. Membership is opitional if he does not whish to join. But state law allows districts to charge and to sue if need to collect from non members.

I can only coment on our department in Iowa.

The rural tax payer is charged 40 1/2 cents per thousand, and another 20 cents for EMS.

That being said, it doesn't even hardly cover our insurance expences. Max. taxation allowed by the state of Iowa, for probably the last twenty five years.

In the past few years we have been aproched by several home owners that their insurance will pay--usualy $500.00 for a call. However they MUST HAVE A INVOICE to do so. The home owner can not collect this money, so if we do not send a invoice, we are tossing money away.

I detected no ill feelings about fire departments, but everyone needs to think of our lost wages. Say 25 men, for a couple hrs. And I'm here to tell you, that the fire scene is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to fire departments. Ask anyone who lives near a fire station, they usualy wonder what the heck everyone is doing there all the time. We are more than happy to have others join in, but it is usualy more of a comitment than most folks can offer.

All problems are solved by more education in Iowa, so we have to pay for the classes, ofered by the same folks that insist we need the training--follow the dollars.

I'm a old boy 30 plus on fire, and same for EMS, and it always starts out as a good idea, then they turn it into mandatory education, fire is usualy on target, EMS is simply a speaker filling in a time slot, with nothing to do with our EMS. We refer to it as a money making machine for our area schools.

Where else can you get twenty five men at your door in a wink of a eye 24/7. I could go on and on about expences that would blow your mind, and I'm a guessing the $65.00 would not cover the radios / pagers for a single man on that deaprtment.

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