When you say make the firefighting team be volunteer. Is this a conscription type thing for the community? Or purely volunteer?

It kind of seems like we're getting to taxes with extra steps.

If not conscription, and just purely volunteer, what if you don't have volunteers? Or enough volunteers? Or a large enough community to be able to handle the coverage distance. There are a lot of rural areas in the country that are miles between houses.

I think the idea is that you need a reliable service that can be called on a moment's notice, that works almost as a preventative measure to keep emergencies from escalating.

Maybe that can be profitable for a company to run, but I'd be surprised if that is the case.

And I don't think you get the necessary reliability (or up to date training and equipment) with a volunteer force.

I don't know. Not everything needs to be taxed, but some stuff sure seems like a necessity for the good of the community.