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I once read that there are some states in the U.S. where firefighters don't put out fires in houses that don't pay a monthly subscription.
That sounds apocryphal.
Not sure about the modern equivalents to this, but in Rome (please correct if wrong) it used to be like that. Firefighters would only put out fires of houses that paid them and otherwise just stood there, watching.
At least that's what I read in one of those "did you know this about the ancient cultures?" articles and those aren't always reliable either.