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Are you sure. I have inlaws that live in yorktown, the county, they pay a fire "Fee" but thier taxes also go to the fire dept.... I can see that if they are in unicorporated land that this fee is more than fair, but, if I were the firemen, I'd roll up thier with a clip board that stated they would be billed by the hour if the fee hadn't been paid. Why? because by not addressing this fire they risked the other home, which had paid.
From what I understand about the story, the county properties lie outside the city's tax zone. But they also provide the emergency services to the county as a large, so since they can't tax they do this 75 dollar thing. There seems like there is room for reason in this. 75 bucks, if you don't pay it and have a fire it becomes 150 or 200 or something like that; but they'll put the fire out.