Fire department budgets are under an ever-increasing strain, local governments are under evermore pressure to restrain spending and the general public is overburdened with taxes. The easiest way for fire departments to help address this financial stress is to work with ESBC to recover costs for their services on auto accident responses.
Many volunteer firefighters think, “I’m a volunteer. This is just what I do!” But the community your department serves shouldn’t be forced to “volunteer” to cover increased costs caused by calls for out-of-area auto owners!
Local tax-payers are paying to maintain the costs that keep your department open and ready to respond to community emergencies. When you have to use more-and-more of those funds to aid auto owners, many of whom are from outside the area, your community suffers. ESBC believes that fire departments have a duty to get money back, and we can help show you how to accomplish cost recovery.
With the ever-growing amount of traffic on the roads and highways that surround local communities, more-and-more accidents involve tractor tailors and business/delivery traffic that is passing through. It is unfair for your department, and community, to be saddled with all the expense of dealing with the accidents and emergencies caused by those passing through to another city or town.
Many states have authorized fire departments to bill for these calls to try and address this escalating problem. It’s unfair for your community and department to bear the burden of footing the entire bill for these types of calls while the insurance companies continue to collect premium payments to cover the same accidents.
The billing of auto accident responses, for both paid and volunteer departments, is a much needed tool. Not billing takes money away from your investment in equipment, training, updating technology, etc.
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Fire department budgets are under an ever-increasing strain, local governments are under evermore pressure to restrain spending and the general public is overburdened with taxes. The easiest way for fire departments to help address this financial stress is to work with ESBC to recover costs for their services on auto accident responses.
Many volunteer firefighters think, “I’m a volunteer. This is just what I do!” But the community your department serves shouldn’t be forced to “volunteer” to cover increased costs caused by calls for out-of-area auto owners!
Local tax-payers are paying to maintain the costs that keep your department open and ready to respond to community emergencies. When you have to use more-and-more of those funds to aid auto owners, many of whom are from outside the area, your community suffers. ESBC believes that fire departments have a duty to get money back, and we can help show you how to accomplish cost recovery.
With the ever-growing amount of traffic on the roads and highways that surround local communities, more-and-more accidents involve tractor tailors and business/delivery traffic that is passing through. It is unfair for your department, and community, to be saddled with all the expense of dealing with the accidents and emergencies caused by those passing through to another city or town.
Many states have authorized fire departments to bill for these calls to try and address this escalating problem. It’s unfair for your community and department to bear the burden of footing the entire bill for these types of calls while the insurance companies continue to collect premium payments to cover the same accidents.
The billing of auto accident responses, for both paid and volunteer departments, is a much needed tool. Not billing takes money away from your investment in equipment, training, updating technology, etc.