Dave Henderson at Econlog references a private fire service company in Arizona called Rural/Metro Fire Department. Their website is worth taking a quick look at. Henderson points out that this company will respond to calls from non-subscribers, but charges a multiple of their annual fee to provide the one time service.
Furthermore, I imagine this privately owned fire service, with a reputation to protect, would go out of its way to avoid the bad publicity that would come with sitting idly by as someone's house burns down.
On the other hand, the government run fire department in Tennessee, with its monopoly status, and its government employees blindly following dumb bureaucratic rules, and its lack of foresight on how to handle calls from non-subscribers, allowed the house to burn down.
And libertarians are supposed to be on the defensive on this one?
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