Would you buy car insurance if you could wait until after you had a wreck to buy it?
Where do you think the money for the fire trucks and hoses comes from?
Do you think that the term "volunteer" means that the volunteer pays for the privilege of putting out other peoples' fires by buying his/her own equipment?
Do you know how much a fire truck costs?
We just paid $450,000 for our last piece. But if we left it sitting in the road while someones house burned , what good would it be.