Reply #32: The question that should be asked, raccoon

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Is whether a community agrees or not that an effort should be made to extinguish all fires. That is your first principle; who pays for the service comes much later in the scenario and should be filed under administrata.

This situation should not have been allowed to exist. In setting up a fee-based system did the bureaucrats NEVER envision a time when services may be refused to a non-payer? Those are the people to be condemned here.