If a resident owner does not pay a $75 fee for the house, the assumption is nothing in the house is worth more than the piece of mind the $75 fee gives. I susp

If a resident owner does not pay a $75 fee for the house, the assumption is nothing in the house is worth more than the piece of mind the $75 fee gives. I suspect the firemen went there to asses whether there was 1)a high degree of danger to lives of people and 2)uncontrolled spread of the fire. If there were people in the house, they would have more than likely used their expertise voluntarily to extract those people from the flames. But a house is just a house, even with sentimental value. (My dad is a bit of a hoarder and literally has junk that he holds on to because of "sentimental value.") All in all, the priorities of the fire department were on the straight.