You should form your own volunteer fire department. It only costs about $500,000 to set one up.
If you don't have $500,000, maybe you could ask people to donate.
If you can't get $500,000 in donations, you might have to resort to promising people that you will put out their fires if they pay you $100 per year, and that if they don't pay you, you won't put out their fires.
Which do you want? A free, non-existent fire department, or a real fire department that you have to pay for?
Socialists always believe everything should be free.
It's not about wanting fire service for free. It's also not like insurance, unless you include "uncle Guido's protection insurance".
If this guy has done anything wrong, its that he's not paid a tax. Clearly he should have done that. But for the fire department to check and see whether he bought tickets to the "firemen's ball" (as they call it 'round these parts) and refuse to fight the fire... is just lame.
Obviously, they're doing it as a "lesson" for everybody else to pay up their protection money.
I am not a socialist.
But, one of the functions of government....one of the very few legitimate functions of government in the Constitution...is TO PROTECT us, not just those who can afford a membership fee.
I am sorry, but it smacks of failing to do that duty if they will not help an American citizen just because he isn't a member.