Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2007 15:10:28 GMT -5
I live in a very rural farming area where we have no choice but to depend on a volunteer fire dept. Thing is, it used to work okay, even though the equipment was antique. We now have a bunch of status seeking 'morons' who will go to a fire IF they feel like it.
The old time volunteers would be there on the double, but not so with these guys. They would rather keep drinking a beer than help with a fire.
It has been another one of those hot and dry summers for us. My pastures burned up way back in the spring and I have had to feed hay every day the past two years. The fields around me are like living in a tinder box and just waiting for them to catch fire!
Every day there has been at least one or more fires...combines are burning in the fields and the fires are going wild. The fire departments are being called frequently; what seems like every hour on the police scanner.
The last timber fire was burning for five days! The little fire dept. was called yesterday, but they REFUSED to go back out again, as they said it was not YET BAD ENOUGH! Well, after three calls, and finally a call to the next city for help, they went out and it was too bad for them to do much about it then. Several homes were in danger of being burned, yet they did nothing to stop it when the fire was just smoldering back to life from the day before.
Yesterday, the farmers got tired of the fire depts. not responding and worked together to try and get the corn out of the fields before it got burned. Several of them worked together to help save the corn while the firemen watched. Trucks came in from all over to help haul the grain away. If it had not been for the farmers taking things into their own hands, all would have been lost!
Well, I do not feel safe leaving my home/farm now. I have animals everywhere and the leaves are falling leaving a carpet of tinder around each building as well as around the house. I cut back most of the trees from around the house and other buildings, but the leaves and corn shucks (from the fields) are blown back in by the wind as soon as I try to rake them away.
I have a hose attached and ready to turn on if I smell smoke, but in case of a lit cigarette being carelessly tossed out, it would soon be lost. It does no good to call the fire depts. I have no good close neighbors or farmers who I can call for help, so it is mostly going to be up to me to save my animals and place in the event of fire.
I need ideas as to how to make things more fireproof and how to save the place in event of fire. Like I said, it does no good to rake the leaves, as they are back as soon as I rake them...the winds blow corn shucks onto the property too. The winds are non stop these past few weeks and with the hunters in the area, there are always fires!
I have two careless neighbors. One lights fires and leaves.....
Another one lets them burn where ever they want to go; this one also has a meth lab. I have been staying home since the outbreak of fires and I really need to me making money to pay bills. I just cannot leave the animals alone with all these wild fires.
Anyone?
The old time volunteers would be there on the double, but not so with these guys. They would rather keep drinking a beer than help with a fire.
It has been another one of those hot and dry summers for us. My pastures burned up way back in the spring and I have had to feed hay every day the past two years. The fields around me are like living in a tinder box and just waiting for them to catch fire!
Every day there has been at least one or more fires...combines are burning in the fields and the fires are going wild. The fire departments are being called frequently; what seems like every hour on the police scanner.
The last timber fire was burning for five days! The little fire dept. was called yesterday, but they REFUSED to go back out again, as they said it was not YET BAD ENOUGH! Well, after three calls, and finally a call to the next city for help, they went out and it was too bad for them to do much about it then. Several homes were in danger of being burned, yet they did nothing to stop it when the fire was just smoldering back to life from the day before.
Yesterday, the farmers got tired of the fire depts. not responding and worked together to try and get the corn out of the fields before it got burned. Several of them worked together to help save the corn while the firemen watched. Trucks came in from all over to help haul the grain away. If it had not been for the farmers taking things into their own hands, all would have been lost!
Well, I do not feel safe leaving my home/farm now. I have animals everywhere and the leaves are falling leaving a carpet of tinder around each building as well as around the house. I cut back most of the trees from around the house and other buildings, but the leaves and corn shucks (from the fields) are blown back in by the wind as soon as I try to rake them away.
I have a hose attached and ready to turn on if I smell smoke, but in case of a lit cigarette being carelessly tossed out, it would soon be lost. It does no good to call the fire depts. I have no good close neighbors or farmers who I can call for help, so it is mostly going to be up to me to save my animals and place in the event of fire.
I need ideas as to how to make things more fireproof and how to save the place in event of fire. Like I said, it does no good to rake the leaves, as they are back as soon as I rake them...the winds blow corn shucks onto the property too. The winds are non stop these past few weeks and with the hunters in the area, there are always fires!
I have two careless neighbors. One lights fires and leaves.....
Another one lets them burn where ever they want to go; this one also has a meth lab. I have been staying home since the outbreak of fires and I really need to me making money to pay bills. I just cannot leave the animals alone with all these wild fires.
Anyone?
