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Hot Ticket

Posted by Amanda Parsons in Main

November 30, 2007 5:03 PM

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Los Angeles County firefighters who traveled the distance to fight recent blazes in San Diego County are being charged $100 for using the toll roads without paying the fee, the Register reported today.

It seems that these "heroes" think they are the kings of the world who are magically exempt from such charges. Darn firefighters! They think they can get away with everything. It's not like they were heading to save some lives or anything.

Oh wait. Yes they were. In fact, the blazes destroyed 1700 homes, burned 368000 acres and killed 10 people in San Diego county and the damage could have been worse if it weren't for these brave souls.

But emergency situations don't seem to matter much to the TCA, who told the LAFD to pay up regardless. However, they were nice enough to reduce the fine to $5 after much coaxing from fire department officials.

All I have to say is that the TCA better hope their headquarters doesn't catch fire any time soon. That might make for an uncomfortable situation.

Read the Register's story here.

 

Comments (2)

  1. Bob Squalonero says:
    November 30, 2007 18:17

    For me, reading this blog added a new wrinkle to the meaning of the title to Moxley's column, "It's Your Money (But The Government Spends It)". ;-)

  2. Woof says:
    December 2, 2007 17:11

    It's easy to write slamming items if you don't bother to check the facts. The Reg got it half right, the Times more so. These guys weren't heading for a fire, they were taking their rig down to the San Diego area for a funeral. It was on Friday afternoon, Oct 19, two days before ANY of the fires started down there. So yeah, it was and emergency vehicle, but it wasn't on any sort of emergency run. But when it comes to "hereos" and the TCA, which one you gonna slam??? Oh, and BTW, once the fires did begin, the TCA waived all tolls for any emergency vehicles on its system.

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