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[โ€“] stella@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fire departments are funded by local taxes or staffed by volunteers.

There isn't a massive for-profit firemen corporation that controls departments across the US, to the best of my knowledge.

[โ€“] explodicle@local106.com 2 points 1 year ago

It wasn't massive by today's standards, but we did actually used to have for profit fire departments funded by insurance.