6 Times Firefighters Were NOT Actually Heroes

Firefighters allowed a house to burn over a $75 fee

In a normal society, firefighters should accept any intervention to help people and their houses because this is what their job involves, right? Well, that rule doesn’t seem to apply in South Fulton, Tennessee. 

Back in 2010, a firefighter from South Fulton allowed a house from Obion County to burn because they didn’t pay the annual fee of $75. According to the inhabitants, the county depends on the South Fulton Fire Department for firefighting services and they have to pay an annual fee for them. 

Gene Cranick, the homeowner, said that the firefighters of the South Fulton Fire Department refused to help him stop the fire because he didn’t pay that fee. Eventually, firefighters arrived at Cranick’s house, but they just watched the house burn. Cranick said that they got there not to stop the fire, but to make sure that it didn’t affect their neighbor’s house who had already paid the fee.