https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWIc8enjZ8c

Do you want fire trucks to come to your house when it's on fire?

Or the ambulance? Or the police when you call?

Indeed, don't read on ree

I'm joking.

I'm not an ancap anymore.

But if I still were, the answer would be "Why can't I pay the fire departmant, ambulance and police directly?"

You typically do for the first two

Here

But the equipment and volunteers don't just get paid/bought if there's a fire

They have to be prepared

It helps that the fire department here is run by donations and is a purely volunteer force.

They have to have the truck already. They have to pay the firefighters for being on call

It is also run on donations for fire halls etc

And volunteer firefighters

But it's not enough or consistent enough

ancoms be like: nationalize everything then abolish the nation

I've been the treasurer for a volunteer fire dept btw

But they get grants from the gov't too.

They need them or no fire service

Maybe yours suffers in donations because you don't live in a literal fucking powder keg like us.

Lol k

Look up the fort Mac fires

Because the urgency to support it is that much more because the country is primed to burn constantly.

Then tell me that

Is that a singular instance or a yearly thing?

Or BC's forest fires

australia is lit

We have intense grass fires where I live. Very likely we will burn this summer after Australia's done

No rain lately. Verge of drought. Etc etc

In the words of smoky bear

Actually the fires are petering out here @Shattered.

We've had some *intense* rainfall this week and it's really helped the situation.

ONLY YOU can prevent wildfires

That's good I'm glad to hear that

das gud

The ones around me are all demoted from "Be ready to evacuate to" "Show some caution."

And the sun isn't red anymore.

Ash stopped falling from the fucking sky too.

Much less creepy.

Progress is being made then

hell season has ended