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The gift is the FD and city agreeing to extend fire service to rural areas. They very well could have decided to not do so.

And they demanded to be paid up front for it, and as proven by action not rhetoric they were quite inflexible about the terms of payment. Therefore not a gift. The local grocery store doesn't give you food as a gift. You pay for it, and they provide the product or service. No payment no service. A gift is something given without strings attached. Words have meanings.

The firemen stood buy and let a man's home burn over $75. They may have many virtues, but charity is quite clearly not among them.

Words do have meanings: Since when is charity now a service? Should Walmart be required to give out free food to those who demonstrate need? They had to bring water because there were no hydrants. Had there been another structure fire, they would not have been able to put it out for a paying customer because of their charity towards this dickhead. What happened to the concept of taxation without representation? This guy paid no taxes for the service therefore he receives no representation in the form of fire services. He can purchase it up front but didn’t.
This debate has done one thing here: It has brought the RINO’s out of their closets. Don’t forget that what these firefighters did was first introduced in Phili by Ben Franklin. Pay the fee, get the plaque to hang on your home, your home catches fire and the firefighters will respond. No fee, no plaque, no home.