Cal Fire Fee
Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed into law a $150 annual wildfire protection fee for property owners in rural areas of California. While the regulators are still working out the details and some counties are even preparing to seek answers from the courts, we want you to be as prepared as possible with knowledge of the areas likely to be affected by this new fee. We have provided a copy of the map showing those proposed affected areas in yellow.
Cathy, we have the Fire Tax here in Florida. Every quarter you get a "Bill" from the Fire Department.
Actually this is a fee only for rural homeowners. It is not statewide. So, if a Cityit comes up here, parks their hot exhaust pipe on one of our dry fields and sets fire. He does not have to pay the premium fee.
Better yet, if he riots in the city and sets the place on fire, we still get to pay extra.
It just doesn't seem fair to single out rural homeowners. Just like Fla. we have a lot of open land, BLM and National forest land that is subject to fires. Part of the problem is the mismanagment of these other organizations in not allowing the underbrush to burn. So now the fuels are so built up if it does catch fire it is catasrophic.
Oh, and the real afront - the funds were originally earmarked only for "prevention" not to compensate the departments that actually battle the fires.
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