Don't fire them all, but coming close probably wouldn't hurt. As evidence I offer the below. My rural college and surroundings depended on a student-staffed fi

Don't fire them all, but coming close probably wouldn't hurt. As evidence I offer the below. My rural college and surroundings depended on a student-staffed fire department to for emergency medical services, fire-prevention and protection. - Because many emergencies need a quick response, volunteering students lived behind the fire-department in a dilapidated college-owned building. ~30 meters door-to-door. - Housing on-campus attached us to an administrative process. Volunteers registered as a special interest group focused on community service. This was an administrative formality to house firefighters next to their fire station to protect life and property. - The special interest process occurred before the lottery to allocate block housing. I was confident that volunteers' 1K+ hours of combined community service and recent suppression of a small dorm fire served as proof positive that we were a bona fide community service organization. - According to the student housing administrator we were not! We did not adequately perform (paraphrasing) on-campus education related to our community service and were to be housed together in a building several minutes instead of seconds from the fire station. All attempts at rational resolution were pointless/ineffectual. - This standoff persisted for weeks until the mayor and a trustee got wind of it, putting the matter to bed. Net, a campus administrator wanted to endanger thousands of people by arbitrarily increasing a fire department's response times over a (deliberately?) misguided interpretation of our inadequate provision of on-campus services a few weeks after we put out a fire in a dorm. We also started burning a mock dorm room on the central quad's lawn after this to amply demonstrate our on-campus education efforts.