joegoofinoff
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Gentlemen - A few years ago, a lunatic girl started a fire in my Condo. A fort of a structure (prestress concrete). The fire was localized to her unit, but then the worst thing happened. The volunteer fire dept. came. We were out at the time. When we got home, we went upstairs to our Unit. We live on the sixth floor (nine floors total) in an L shaped structure and the fire was on the second floor of the other leg of the L. The fire dept. broke in the doors of the units that didn't respond to their knock (ours had a broken door). After we got to our unit, the police told me we had to evacuate the building. It was a police order. The police chief even came and ordered me out. I let him know if he or his men tried to get us out, there'd be a fight and then I'd own the town. I told him as nicely as possible. He said it was for our own safety. I told him I'd spent my life in Construction and I know a thing or two about safety and that building wasn't coming down because of that little fire which was out. My wife did restrain me though from going to the next fire dept. meeting and letting them know what I thought of their stupid overreaction to that little fire (they destroyed about eight units just with water damage - fire was out in 10 mins). I've got friends on the NYFD who said the volunteers were completely in the wrong by doing that. They never wreck a building like that up in the city.
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