Oh for crying out loud, people with your understanding of how things should work is why some communities are taxed to death. Fire equipment is expensive enough for small communities to pay for.
Now take putting on full time firemen who in a small community with practically no fires will just sit on their rear ends all day long and get paid big wages. That’s a democrats dream.
Small communities do not have the population base to support it. If you live in a small community and do not feel safe, then move to Chicago or Detroit, demonrat paradises, and you should be OK.
Or if you like the earthy smell of rural life, move to San Fran where they crap in the streets. That stuff decomposes into dirt, plus they have a nice large fire department with pretty fire engines and trannies in uniforms.
Sorry for the rant, but I gotta keep going. Years ago we moved into a small community with gravel streets/no sidewalks. A few city people moved in and bitched until we got paved streets and sidewalks. The planners did a massive upgrade on the underground water and sewer system before paving so they would not have to dig it up again. The special assessment taxes drove many of us out.
“Sorry for the rant, but I gotta keep going.”
Geez, that’s sig worthy!
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In my 20’s I bought my first home. Kind of outside the suburban sprawl. I was a little taken aback when my insurance guy notes I was only a hundred yards from a pond they could use to put out a fire. And that was a good thing. I was also 1/4 a mile from the line where the fire department was “obligated” to go. Beyond that, it was volunteers.
I grew up a lot in that home.