Oh my, so much violence. No need for that.
Your way:
The guy's house burned to the ground and he was mighty unhappy about that. Nobody was happy about that. Everybody wanted to save his house but the only people with the right equipment to do the job were constrained by law to let it burn because of a $75 dollar fee that went unpaid. This system was legal and in fact was the one that the people said they wanted until the consequences came to roost. So, now, they have changed their system to allow firefighters to put that fire out and charge $2300 bucks if the homeowner didn't pay the $75 dollar service fee ahead of time. The home owner could tell them they didn't want their house fire to be put out. The idiocy of this system is apparent even to the people who live there so nobody is happy. The lunatics who voted for this system are blaming the managers who are doing what the voters told them to do. Your kind are not very smart. Your lunatic ideas create these stupid situations.
My way:
Where I live the people of my community pay for a properly funded, well managed and maintained fire fighting unit through property taxes. The fire fighting unit has a predictable and reliable funding mechanism, a process for paying for the maintenance and replacement of equipment as needed. When somebody's house catches fire, the only question is how long does it take for the firemen to get there. We are smug about the superiority of our process also we are much smarter than you are.