City of Daytona Beach v. Palmer

How courts have described this case

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• the allocation of police manpower during a riot involves a public duty (i.e., protection of public safety
• owner of property lost in fire cannot recover for firemen's negligent failure to extinguish blaze
• there has never been a common law nor statutory duty of care to individual owners to provide fire protection services
• supreme court held that no common law duty existed to provide fire protection and hence no tort liability could arise even though the negligence occurred on an operational level
• decision on how to fight a fire is discretionary, nontortious immune activity; conduct in driving firefighting equipment to scene of fire or personal injury to spectator from negligent handling of equipment at scene is actionable
• provisions to warn individuals of riot

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).