If one decides not to purchase car insurance and then gets into a wreck, would one expect the insurance companies to swoop in and make good anyhow? I do not think that many people would answer to the affirmative. So why then should a family - too cheap to pay the annual fee - expect firefighters to douse the fire in their home all the same?
This wasn't a VFD but raher a city FD covering a Rural area by subscription service as I understand the article. Thus city taxes paid for the service. County residence had too have known no paid fee paid meant no coverage given. Most Tennessee counties usually cover rural fire fighting needs with VFD's though.