Defective fire departments - ignorance or ego at work?

Once upon a time there was a house fire near the city of Newark Ohio that should inspire a new way of regulating the activities of volunteer fire departments.

I do not understand exactly why Newark Township did not respond until almost after the fact. I've read all the news reports, but that only confuses me more. Maybe the reporters don't understand the cause or they can't say, at least not in a way that I can understand.

They seem to be tip-toeing around and behind the various egos within the township and/or city fire departments. It's long past time when someone came out from behind the mumbo jumbo and tells the rest of us what really happened on the morning when a Newark Township home belonging to a Newark city firefighter was heavily damaged by fire.

You don't have to be a fireman or to understand the exact nature of a "run card" - on which this travesty is being blamed - to know that someone screwed up because of ignorance or ego. Perhaps local governments are also open to those same ignorance and/or ego charges

Either way, the loss of this home demonstrates that the regulation of fire departments is defective. That can be fixed here, at the city and county level, or maybe we'll fool around until the state seizes this opportunity to create more power and more bureaucracy for itself.

Better that we get the real problems out in the open here, and then solve them. Let's do it before another home is unnecessarily damaged or destroyed.