[ozarkgirl]

My point is you still get the service either way. We maybe have homes closer to each other than by you and we have gas or oil lines we don't want to go boom.

I understand where you come from but you live in the city. Here, you must either be responsible and if you choose to have everyone else pay their $20 a year and you refuse, then fine, no one's going to help you when you're in need. My people are very helpful and responsible, that is why they are willing to work for no pay to help people. When that firebell rings, they leave their jobs, unpaid to help those in need. They each lose more in a few hours than the $20 they ask in a YEAR for the needed supplies to help them.

Again I say, I'd rather pay the $20 for the rural fire department than whatever taxes you are paying. I have to laugh at what you are paying in taxes while complaining about our system. You just keep paying those taxes....

[A CA Guy]

Out here in CA, I am in a suburb, but whether in a more city or rural area, we still have service to all emergencies.

Granted, I say if you don't pay your $35 a year then you may get a $4000 bill, but the reason all get service is it degrades the neighborhood if there is a burnt down home with no way of rebuilding it. The city rather have more minor damage than the start of a ghetto on it's hands.

When a home burns down or has the cars up on blocks on the lawn, it brings down the rest of the neighborhood value which then drives away business and other methods of making that neighborhood money and jobs. It is a reverse trickle down issue IMO.