FREE REPUBLIC resides in California.
I live here and never vote Dem, a fat lot of good it does me. I also live in the mountains and will be hit with this “fee”. It’s bad enough to still be charged property taxes on a house that’s lost more than half its value because of the policies of the liberals, now they want to soak me some more on the pretext of fighting fires. I’m forced to pay for flood insurance, too - and I’m on top of a mountain!
To appease their Green God, they’re also building giant transmission lines from the windmill and solar farms further north through my community, increasing the fire danger they now want me to pay extra for. And we don’t even get the electricity.
There’s a lot more, but don’t get me started on these bastards. They’ve taken Ronald Reagan’s once-great state and turned it into a third world crap hole.
Me, too. Worse, the feds have purchased a lot of the land around here for "preserves" that we paid for and aren't even allowed to walk on. We're required to clear our property for fire control, but the feds let their brush grow thick and tall - and then dry out.
The federal gov is causing fire danger, and now they're billing us for it.
Agreed my folks moved us to southern Calif in 1953-4? I still live here but it’s not the state I grew up in. Tears for the once “Golden State “