Seems to me that PTC, Fayetteville, and Brooks all need to come together a little better.

I hear Brooks folks bad mouthing PTC and Fayetteville every day - sort of like you saying they are too proud to call and talking about the bubble. Why all the hostility when you are so close together, share recreation programs and share schools?

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Why is it that in Fayette County that no matter where you live in the county it comes down to money, big houses and status? Suddenly, no one is talking about the fire or who responded to it but like a bunch of spoiled brats, it's about who snubs who. If you wonder why things are not changing, then take a good long look at what all of you wrote and the motives behind them. Grow up all you in Fayette County! Get a grip on life and realize the rest of the world could care less if you have a pot to call your own or not! Nobody cares about the inches of grass or how many bedrooms and bathrooms are in your house when they dial E911 and neither do the men and women that put down their forks to a hot and nutritious meal to respond to that call but yet come back to a cold and tough inedible meal. Life isn't always about money and you would have thought that September 11, 2001 would have taught folks from Fayette County that, but I guess not.

One of my kids goes to SM and most of their friends live in Brooks.

I've always thought it funny that the kids from Brooks think we have money because we live in PTC.

After seeing some of the homes in Brooks, I'm led to believe that they're the ones with the money. There are many beautiful homes in that area that PTC can't even come close to.

I don't know any neighborhoods in PTC that have a runway in the front yard.

The people I've met from Brooks have always been good folk as far as I'm concerned.

I'm just glad they have to cut the 20 acres of grass in the front yard and not me.

I have friends from all three (and Tyrone and .... ) areas.

As for Brooks, I am a huge rodeo fan and help out whenever and however I can with the Brooks Rodeo crowd. I have some dear friends who live in Brooks.

I guess I didn't say it very well. What I was trying to say is that we need to all get along and forget about the 'bubble' and 'too proud' type of remarks and just get to know each other as people and not from a demographic or geographic perspective.

I have some very humble friends in PTC and some very arrogant ones as well. The same is true of everywhere else and the stereotypes can get in the way.

I like what Hack said - we have so much in common that we could and would talk about if we met. When I was overseas in the USAF, if you saw someone from Georgia - anywhere in Georgia - that was your newest best friend. I don't live in PTC - I was attempting to defend some of my PTC friends.

Just a thought.

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I guess I just try to get along with as many as possible until given a reason not to.

I'm technically a Yankee, only been here for 19 yrs., and I still get along with most everybody here in GA.

The point is we only have about 1 guy per truck, even though we are paying double. We are short-handed to begin with.

This is like Gov. Lucy's negative aid. In Wis. in the 70's he double taxed people who lived in resort areas to help out the welfare people.

I do count my blessings. I also count my tax dollars and how they are spent.

If that is how you perceive the situation, then get involved. Start a petition, go to City and Fayette County Counsel meetings, write letters and make phone calls. If possible, volunteer for the PTC or Fayette County Fire Department. All of the departments in the county have made great strides to keep up with the growth and change that has occured in the past twenty years but only so much can be done. The folks that are elected to office will only respond when the citizens make it very clear how they want and where they want funds and manpower allocated. I believe in accountability of tax dollars but not to lose sight of what is really important in this life, such as our safety and those of our community.

I think everyone is grateful for all of our men and women in uniform who keep us safe.

In previous articles in this paper we have been informed of how short staffed our fire dept. is.
We have also basically been given what seems to be a double tax in PTC for emergency services. So we are paying more for our own fire dept and the county dept. We have also been told due to this shortage of firefighters there are many times in PTC when we only have one guy per truck.

So they want our money, and now they want our one little guy and his one little truck. My concern is how many guys did we have left to protect the city while they were helping out? I know we have a good group of volunteers and we need every last one of them.

I hope the county would provide backup if PTC needs it.

At the north end of the city at crabapple and hwy 74 there is a county station. When we lived on the north end of PTC we were told that that station would not be the one to respond, even though it is across the street. Our call would be answered by a station farther away because it was PTC.

I know that all of our emercency people work very hard everyday to keep us safe. I wish I could say the same of our elected officials.

Even though Shiloh has a PTC address, the entire park is outside of the city limits, so the first responders are FAYETTE COUNTY not PTC. The first trucks probably came from Station 8, on Flat Creek Trail.

On that side of Hwy 54, the PTC limits stop at SteinMart. On the other side of Hwy 54, the Lexington Pass subdivision is still in PTC.

And exactly how were they supposed to know, whoever responded, that it was an empty trailer?