It all depends on the resources a community puts behind its fire protection.

The tax base provides community services, whether it be fire protection or snow removal or police support, and out here on a federal installation like Fort Riley, those services are provided so we don't need a tax base to generate any kind of income.

You either buy it or you don't have it. You buy the fire protection up here, and you have it.

You're not going to have experts in fire protection on the town board.

That was not for his protection, but for the fire officials' protection because his skin literally had serious contaminants on it.

In mid-America, the mid-sized and small communities where fire protection is (done by) volunteers, there are no investigation capabilities. You have to call in agency or county fire marshals, ATF,