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FIRST OF ALL, THAT hypothetical house burning down is not just the owner’s bad luck. The fire could endanger a neighbor’s house or fields, and the volunteers who rolled out — most likely in the middle of a dark and cold winter night — to try and douse the flames would also be placed in a dangerous situation, as they are every time they answer an emergency call.
Secondly, it’s not merely a question of an individual, foolish home builder buying a cheap and risky wiring job. One of the major benefits of something like an electrical code is to provide the legal means for preventing something cheap and dangerous being sold in the first place, and for providing a means of redress if some fest operator tries to get by the law. Where do Rappahannock home builders — and again, we refer to individuals, not contractors who should know better as a matter of professional competence — stand now? Out in left field without a glove, we’re afraid.
AN ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR and assorted individuals all agreed that the matter of an electrical code for Rappahannock County, along with other structural codes, needs “further study.’’
Well, let’s give the matter the study it deserves and then get cracking on something Rappahannock needs. □
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