I read an article a while back about a private fire company the Salem Fire corporation in Arkansas you can sign up with this Salem Fire Corporation pay a yearly subscription fee, and if your house catches on fire they will come and put out the fire but they won't put out everybody's fire, they will only put it out if it's a fire in the home of subscriber or if it starts to spread and to threaten the home of a subscriber the newspaper article told the story of a homeowner who had subscribed to this company in the past but failed to renew his subscription his house caught on fire the Salem Fire Corporation showed up with its trucks and watched the house burn. 