San Diego Conservatives Thank Volunteer Firemen for Saving Homes – Tax Free

In the wake of the massive firestorms that swept through Southern California this week, San Diegan conservatives whose homes didn't burn down are thanking the thousands of volunteer firemen and crews from other states and countries for helping out, free of charge.

“It sounds like they did a heck of a job,” remarked Jacob Tinsley, who was in Las Vegas on vacation when he heard the good news from a neighbor that officials had lifted mandatory evacuations of his Rancho Santa Fe neighborhood Thursday, “My house is extremely valuable, and although it’s fully insured, it would have been a real hassle to deal with if it had been destroyed.”

Distinguished by its impressive record for defeating tax and bond initiatives designed to support public services that fail to generate wealth, many fiscally conservative San Diegans were especially proud of those who pitched in to help fill the county’s glaring deficiencies in personnel and firefighting equipment without being paid to do so.

“Despite being a terrible investment within the context of capital returns, as a more secular fiscal conservative I’ve always considered supporting fire fighting and fire prevention institutions as a more pragmatic means of limiting one’s exposure to the possibility of catastrophic financial loss from large, fast moving flames than either praying to God or relying solely on the integrity of insurance companies, which is why I’ve contemplated donating to the annual local fireman’s ball on a couple of occasions and even entertained the notion of possibly becoming a volunteer firefighter myself,” commented Lamar Pollock of La Jolla.

Still, some conservative homeowners were less than happy with the service they received from the men and women who they say might have battled to save their homes from the blazes without compensation, but also did so without consideration.

“These… people completely destroyed the gazebo in my backyard, left filthy footprints all over my deck, threw all my lawn chairs over the fence and chopped a eucalyptus tree that shades my property to bits without even bothering to pick up the mess,” complained Melissa Hargrove, a resident of Escondido in San Diego’s North County, “Yeah, you bet I’m steamed.”