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Originally Posted by MSG'
skooter, I've already have had to call the fire department out to our street during a tornado, powerlines or lightning caught a tree on fire, and once again at my moms place I caught the yard on fire burning branches,wind caught some embers and it spread past my hoses reach, landed past where i wet the area down. only thing we are required to do is call a 1-800 number before we burn, fire department came and put the fire out, i wasnt fined or charged anything, both in the county, but it was a volunteer station
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Okay, and that's fine.
Have you gone and looked at your property taxes? Do they itemize where your money goes to? Typically there will be a line in there somewhere that states you are covered by such-and-such fire department.
In the case of this article, it is expressly written that in this area, property taxes do not cover fire protection. I'm betting the property taxes pay for road maintenance and that's about it.