[houeto]

I am from Pasadena, Texas. The Pasadena Fire Department is the largest single municipal volunteer fire department in the United States. We would never, under any circumstances, watch someone's property be destroyed without trying to fight it. Period.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We would never, under any circumstances, watch someone's property be destroyed without trying to fight it.

That's because part of the Pasadena firefighting funding comes from taxes, unlike this volunteer department, whose sole source of funding is from its members.

Without a funding source to purchase equipment, there is no fire department, volunteer or otherwise.

[listenhillary]

"I am from Pasadena, Texas. The Pasadena Fire Department is the largest single municipal volunteer fire department in the United States. We would never, under any circumstances, watch someone's property be destroyed without trying to fight it. Period."

Good for you. Sounds like you have the funds to absorb the costs. Some of these rural places do not.