Earlier this year there was a fire at one of the nudist resorts here in Missouri. The fire completely destroyed the clubhouse. The owner is well on his way for rebuilding the clubhouse and is ahead of schedule for reopening May 16th. So obviously the community found out that he was there and the kind of place he was running. The following is the reaction that he is getting from the community, these are his words as he wrote to me in an email.
"since the fire - the whole co and even other places are - like ---- O you are the guy with the nude camp. I think eveything has worked out the best way, eveyone knows Im here now and have now have been here for a few yrs and no issue. So its like hey it was there and we didnt know about it without any problems - now we know and still no problems. I think Im past the OOOOOO this cant happen in our town. Its all good and now even more secure in what I have built."
It's great to see his community reacting like this, and I can only hope that other communities would act the same way.
Wow, its like finding out liberals live in your neighborhood and then you relaize they've been there quite a while and never started any social programs that took taxes. O.K., I'm sarcastic, I know, but you're right. Out here it doesn't seem to be an issue. In Palm Springs, I think Tom of the Terra Cotta was on the city council in Palm Springs and they once had a meeting at the club with half the council people getting nekkid after.
Thats great news. Something good happened out of a tragic situation.
Apparently, the people knew this man, but just not as much as they thought they did. When people have known you for many years and have been friends with you, it may be that they might (might) take the news a little better, especially when it makes sense (I should have known that about you, it's so obvious).
But it is a bit scary when you can run a whole nude camp and nobody knows about it. I wonder what else they don't know about their own neighborhood and neighbors? Also makes you wonder why they should worry about it. TV News play on those fears a lot. Someone will find out a criminal who has done their time many years ago, is living in their neighborhood and they are suddenly scared and can't sleep at night. The guy has been there for years, if he was going to do something, it would have been best if he done when you didn't know he was there. Why should you be scared now? Same way with nudist resorts. Why think something bad is going to happen when it has not happened all these years?
I am glad for him that he can now enjoy his lifestyle a lot more. I'm sure the firemen had a shock when they got there!
White Tail Resort in Ivor, VA has their own fire truck.
It was quite a fire, he told me that 9 departments responded, I'm thinking that he meant 9 trucks though. The construstion workers are working 7 days a week to get it ready for reopening day. He's concidering throwing a clothed cookout for the fire personel and construstion workers for all there hard work. I told him he should do it, he might even pick up a few more customers from that gesture alone. I'm sure he will have at least a few more customers this year just because the locals know he is there now.
If he's in a rural area it is quite likely that 9 departments actually responded. Especially if there aren't any fire hydrants in the area. It takes a LOT of equipment and personnel to supply water when hydrants aren't available.
Nine department would have meant upwards of 15 trucks. A minimum for 3 from the primary station. I have to wonder if he's calling each station and/or truck a seperate department, that can get confusing for someone that hasn't worked within a fire department before. The department that covers his area has several stations and trucks, so the need for 8 other departments is very unlikely and the clubhouse was not THAT big.
No confusion, he didn't call them. He called the emergency number and they dispatched all the departments within a certain radius. Each department may bring just one truck if necessary, the rest are most likely volunteers. The primary department that is the closest will use all their trucks and will most likely call for help if needed.
I used to be a volunteer fire fighter and if the fire was big enough, we call dispatch and they would round up another department that is the next closest. Often, we hear the other departments being called for their fires, and we'll stand by listening on the radio in case they need us if the fire is a house fire or brush that is too close to residences.
My wife and I stopped last Thursday on my way home from work to a house fire that we saw. The fire departments came with their trucks, but several volunteers were responding in their own vehicles. I'd say about three to four departments were dispatched for this house fire.
So several fire departments may yield about five or six trucks, mostly tankers to carry the water. Hopefully, he had a big pool or pond on site to help supplement the tankers.
Bar-S-Ranch in Riedsville, NC has a large pond (about two or three acres) that the local fire department uses to refill their tanks. So the local fire department gets an eyeful every time they come to refill or flush out their tanks!
And the White Tail Resort has their own truck, but I don't know if they back up the other fire departments in their town. Good PR though if they did.
Re: One primary, several backup departments if needed
March 16 2009, 10:35 PM
Yeah, I know how it works. I was on the volunteer fire for several years myslef before I started driving truck OTR. Within our one department we had 5 stations and close to 20 trucks, which is typical for rural Missouri. Some rare departments will have only one station but that is an exception rather than the rule. Now in his paticular location, although he is personally in a rural area, he is close to some population. His primary department although isn't too big is sufficent to do the job with multiple stations. The next closer department is quite a large department and has the fire power and paid personel to get the job done. At the department where I was we very rarely had to call on another department, but would rely on our other stations. Only needing to request personel from the other stations, most of the time an engine and one tanker would do the job because this was a lake community. His situation is somewhat different,because he would have needed to go get water which was about 8 miles away at the towns water tower, so he would have needed several pieces of equipment, not necassarily nine departments. Not that any of this is important, because it really has no bearing on this topic.
No, It wasn't SMA. But rather a new resort that had just opened up last year called "The Oaks of
Cadet" (OC) which in my opinion is alot nicer place and is layed out and set up a whole lot better. The OC even provides sunshine as opposed to SMA during the 2007 CNC-Midwest.
