You quite clearly don’t understand that much about West Virginia apart from the usual cliche of hillbillies and coal mines. I grew in Huntington (where Marshall is located) which is on the western side of the state close to the Ohio border. This is not coal mine country. In fact coal mine country is largely central…

They really can’t because it would set a terrible precedent.
Also I have a little sympathy because it was a goddamn hook and ladder hail mary. Stop it and you don’t get beat.