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There are a lot of reasons that homes cost more, and we still loose too damn many people, including firefighters, in fires.

If my house burns, what does it cost the local government or fire deparment.(sic)

It cost the firefighters 115 deaths last year. Eighty percent of firefighters are volunteers, your friends and neighbors. You may think that this is an acceptable cost, I think you sell their lives too cheap.

Firefighters know that the newer the building, the greater the risk. New buildings are built lighter of more combustible materials that burn faster. Builders are cutting the cost of building at the risk of the occupants and firefighters. Is it too much to ask you to mitigate the risk by extending the biggest lifesaver in the history of fire protection to our homes?

(Yes, its true, only one time have two people been killed in a sprinklered occupancy since the establishment of the NFPA in 1898.)

Yes, I am one of those volunteer firefighters that provide fire protection for most of our country.