THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, May 12, 1996 TAG: 9605100010
SECTION: COMMENTARY PAGE: J4 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 27 lines
In your publication there are sometimes multiple articles in a continuing news story that fail to address the most fundamental issues. Case in point is the recent death of two Chesapeake firefighters. The Fire Department has been criticized for bad planning, poor execution and being undermanned. This particular catastrophe has been blamed on substandard construction, bad communications and everything else under the sun.
But no one has answered the basic question of why firefighters were charging in to save brake pads and starter solenoids anyway. Advance Auto Parts was not a nursery school, old-folks home or even in a residential development. Are we to assume it is standard procedure in Chesapeake to rescue car parts at the expense of men's lives? Isn't this why God created insurance companies?
T. C. BROWN
Norfolk, May 6, 1996 by CNB