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From: jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: private fire-brigades
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Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 21:51:52 EST
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    When I was an inspector for a fire insurance rating service in Arizona,
several areas of that fair state DID depend on a private fire department.
If you were not up to date on your payments, they might or might not respond
to your fire!

    This situation prevailed mostly in rural areas, but one notable exception
was Scottsdale, a major suburb of Phoenix.

    One factor in calculating fire insurance rates is the availability and
quality of fire-fighting service. This is measured on a scale of 1 (ideal-
eg a 1st class urban fire district) to 10 (no protection available). 

    The highest rating in Arizona was a 3 (Mesa). One building that I remember
being in a "10 - unprotected" zone was an actual fire house of the above-
mentioned private fire department. Their service was not significant enough
to affect the insurance rates of their own building.

    I also remember something to the effect of no fire hydrants in the
Paradise Valley district of this same fire protetion service. The pumper
truck was expected to take its water from your swimming pool! ("You dont
have a what?).

"Nuthin' left to do but smile smile smile"
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	Dr Memory
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