No, I live in a city and pay taxes for FD.
This is penny wise dollar foolish.
The “its the princple” types are out to lunch. Way better ways to deal with this than let the house burn down to the ground.
That's not how it works in rural areas, Slick.
You move out into some unincorporated area, and there is no fire department. You get together with other residents in the area and provide firefighting services to people who buy a sticker every year.
It's their fire department, not the people who didn't buy a sticker.
So if they fight fires of people who don't buy stickers, why would anybody buy a sticker?
Plus, fighting fires is dangerous to personnel and equipment. You run a very real risk of breaking equipment that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a very real risk of a firefighter dying. The fire department buys insurance to cover these risks, and part of the underwriting of the insurance involves calculating fire risk to covered homes.
The insurance does not cover the personnel and equipment if they fight fires of non-covered homes.
You're a communist who is too dim-witted to even realize it.
Please name a few, where you enforce a contract NOT ENTERED INTO by the complaining party (the homeowner).
Remember, this is not agovernment FD, it is volunteer, and the homeowner was well informed that he had to pay the yearly fee in order to receive assistance to protect property. He chose not to.
And your solution is?