Please pass it forward!
Now I'm not a big person on chains. I'll repost them if i find them cute or touching but this...this one hits home. This was an email from my mother containing another email from my grandmother. This story is true. My grandmother is living it right now. She has no medical emergency or fire emergency help available to her at this time. Please pass this forward. If it can get into the right hands maybe someone can help this town. Please continue reading for more details.
Please watch and forward this to any one who will listen.
Is this how large government is going to start treating small town America?
This is the town my parents live in. The town itself is small, but there are homes and people scattered all over this valley. Many have come here to retire and are living on social security or disability payments. They pay property taxes, but I am beginning to wonder what that is for. It took $15k just for my parents to have electric, reran to their house. Their water source is a well, and their sewer consists of a septic tank. Both of which they paid to have installed. Most roads are dirt, except for the state highway that runs through the town. The police is state patrol, and the fire department is volunteer. But for the cost of those taxes, they are being kept safe???? Yes, by the local volunteers in the community.
This small, depressed town is being left with no fire or responder units. The group of VOLUNTEERS are being left with nothing to work with. They are taking more than just trucks, they are taking all equipment. With the lack of phone service, and no cell phone service, they rely heavily on 2 way radios and just plain watching out for one another. With little phone service and no cell phone service, by the time outside help arrives for a small fire, the whole town could be lost. (They are surrounded by dirt and dry sagebrush) Last time I looked the temps were around 100 degrees.
And past the "fire" issue. There is the medical emergency issues. Just in the 3 days I was there to visit my parents one person had a heart attack and had to be life flighted to Salt Lake City. With no fire department, they could lose this option too. It is a small community that works together. When a call comes in, the volunteers go to help. They are not afraid to work together to help their neighbors.
They are potentially losing this battle. It can affect not only fire and first response, but the could ultimately lose homeowners insurance with no agency wanting to risk the liability. Then when the fires come...they really will loose it all with no insurance to replace what was lost. They could lose the 3 small business they have in town, and the one small school.
In this world of worries...lets start worrying about each other.
Following is my mothers e-mail and the link to youtube video of the trucks being taken. There was one news story they were able to get, but when the paper discovered the the truck they were left with had pressure issues and was not in working order, they pulled the story. I would imagine they were trying to double check their facts.
"Please have everybody you know leave comments on the seizing of our fire and medical trucks on 1 Jul from Tacoma Valley fire department --
http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=9Arcd0br5h0
The Elko County Commissioners said that they agree that this valley should NOT have any medical services and fire protection. -- We had more fires yesterday -- AND NO TRUCKS TO CONTROL OR PUT DOWN THE FLAMES - Air Med WILL NOT come here now because the fire department is gone -- It's over a 4 hour drive to the hospitals in Salt Lake City, UT and almost three hours to Twin Falls, ID. Idaho donated a fire truck to us a few years back -- AND NDF seized that truck.
-- PLEASE PRAY FOR US --"
Please watch and forward this to any one who will listen.
Is this how large government is going to start treating small town America?
This is the town my parents live in. The town itself is small, but there are homes and people scattered all over this valley. Many have come here to retire and are living on social security or disability payments. They pay property taxes, but I am beginning to wonder what that is for. It took $15k just for my parents to have electric, reran to their house. Their water source is a well, and their sewer consists of a septic tank. Both of which they paid to have installed. Most roads are dirt, except for the state highway that runs through the town. The police is state patrol, and the fire department is volunteer. But for the cost of those taxes, they are being kept safe???? Yes, by the local volunteers in the community.
This small, depressed town is being left with no fire or responder units. The group of VOLUNTEERS are being left with nothing to work with. They are taking more than just trucks, they are taking all equipment. With the lack of phone service, and no cell phone service, they rely heavily on 2 way radios and just plain watching out for one another. With little phone service and no cell phone service, by the time outside help arrives for a small fire, the whole town could be lost. (They are surrounded by dirt and dry sagebrush) Last time I looked the temps were around 100 degrees.
And past the "fire" issue. There is the medical emergency issues. Just in the 3 days I was there to visit my parents one person had a heart attack and had to be life flighted to Salt Lake City. With no fire department, they could lose this option too. It is a small community that works together. When a call comes in, the volunteers go to help. They are not afraid to work together to help their neighbors.
They are potentially losing this battle. It can affect not only fire and first response, but the could ultimately lose homeowners insurance with no agency wanting to risk the liability. Then when the fires come...they really will loose it all with no insurance to replace what was lost. They could lose the 3 small business they have in town, and the one small school.
In this world of worries...lets start worrying about each other.
Following is my mothers e-mail and the link to youtube video of the trucks being taken. There was one news story they were able to get, but when the paper discovered the the truck they were left with had pressure issues and was not in working order, they pulled the story. I would imagine they were trying to double check their facts.
"Please have everybody you know leave comments on the seizing of our fire and medical trucks on 1 Jul from Tacoma Valley fire department --
http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=9Arcd0br5h0
The Elko County Commissioners said that they agree that this valley should NOT have any medical services and fire protection. -- We had more fires yesterday -- AND NO TRUCKS TO CONTROL OR PUT DOWN THE FLAMES - Air Med WILL NOT come here now because the fire department is gone -- It's over a 4 hour drive to the hospitals in Salt Lake City, UT and almost three hours to Twin Falls, ID. Idaho donated a fire truck to us a few years back -- AND NDF seized that truck.
-- PLEASE PRAY FOR US --"