[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Personal responsibility is paramount in this world.  If the people 
> want to 'stay and see', or 'stay and fight', they should have that 
> right.  And the rest of us should have the right to have the 
> firefighters who should be fighting the fire, not the homeowner, to be 
> doing that same thing.
>
> William
There is something appealing to this until one starts considering all 
the consequences.  If all of  the consequences only applied to the 
individual(s) who signed the waiver it would be one thing.  But it does 
not take much thought before one starts realizing that the individuals 
actions can easily have negative effects on the efforts of the 
firefighters.  The first thought that came into my mind is water 
pressure.  When fighting fires in an area with fire hydrants, pressure 
is very important.  And if there are individuals tapping the supply they 
can cause the effort to be lessoned for all.

Individual responsibility and all that rah rah rah.  But humans do not 
live and interact in a vacuum - ones actions will always affect those 
around oneself.

A response to this could be to shut off the water to these waiver 
signers, but then we are back to resources being waisted to find the 
shut off valve and make sure it is shut off in a manner that can not be 
reversed, and that this individual does not bypass the shut off in some 
way, ect, ect, ect.


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