The dollar amount is irrelevant, it's the principle of whether there is some duty to act or not. By this I mean legal rather than moral duty. They're two different things, though you could say that there might be some moral duty towards the neighbors who are otherwise going to have to live next to a charred shell.
If the guy calls up the fire department and they say 'sorry, busy fighting fires in our own town,' then too bad, that's what he gets for living in the boonies. But if they can help, and they are the only ones who can help, but they don't, it's a totally different situation. In those cases where they turn up and just watch, it's worse than not turning up at all.
If the guy calls up the fire department and they say 'sorry, busy fighting fires in our own town,' then too bad, that's what he gets for living in the boonies. But if they can help, and they are the only ones who can help, but they don't, it's a totally different situation. In those cases where they turn up and just watch, it's worse than not turning up at all.