The Watch Lake-North Green LakeVolunteer Fire Departmentin central British Columbia, Canada, will no longer extinguish fires at properties where owners have not paid theirfire protectionannual fee, according to a report in theGlobe and Mail.
About 20 percent of properties in the area protected by the department have outstanding fees thus far in 2011. When firefighters arrive at a property for which the fee hasn’t been paid, the owner can sign a form agreeing to pay $1,000 an hour for the department to douse the flames. Since this new policy went into effect in late August, firefighters have yet to respond to a call at a home where the property owner has not paid the annual fee.
For more on this story, read the full reportHERE.
This situation is reminiscent of a 2010 incident in Tennessee in which firefighters refused to extinguish a fire because the homeowner hadn’t paid their fire fee. Read moreHERE.
