You're being downvoted, presumably by the people who think that the onus of providing firefighting services to, say, a five-million-dollar residence in east San

You're being downvoted, presumably by the people who think that the onus of providing firefighting services to, say, a five-million-dollar residence in east San Diego county situated on ten acres of combustable chapparal should be bourne equally by urban apartment dwellers. The reality is that for a lot of SoCal, firefighting is a gigantic subsidy to people who can afford very expensive houses in a biome that has been periodically catching fire and burning for millions of years.