{"id":72577,"date":"2025-11-27T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/72577\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:21:09","slug":"i-dont-live-in-a-fire-prone-area-why-should-i-pay-for-those-who-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/72577\/","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t live in a fire-prone area. Why should I pay for those who do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Nov. 27, 2025 5 AM PT  <\/p>\n<p>To the editor: I choose not to live in a high-fire-risk area, so why should I pay more in sales tax for those who do (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-11-21\/la-firefighters-propose-hike-in-sales-tax\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cL.A. firefighters propose hike in sales tax to pay for new stations, equipment and more,\u201d<\/a> Nov. 21)? If more money is required to support our fire department, the burden should not fall on those who have enough sense to live in a safer place.<\/p>\n<p>The city allows homes to be built in hillside areas \u2014 supposedly to meet the housing demand, but also to collect more property taxes, which I think is the primary reason. If a homeowner wants a great view (or whatever other reasons they find a fire-prone hillside area desirable), then I think the cost should be solely on them and not the rest of the population.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Simon, North Hollywood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 27, 2025 5 AM PT To the editor: I choose not to live in a high-fire-risk area,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1409,42483,2072,14300,11057,25285,42486,29920,1073,285,42484,48,52,51,47,50,49,42482,5967,42485,42481],"class_list":{"0":"post-72577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-dave-simon","10":"tag-editor","11":"tag-equipment","12":"tag-fire-department","13":"tag-fire-prone-area","14":"tag-great-view","15":"tag-hike","16":"tag-home","17":"tag-homeowner","18":"tag-l-a-firefighter","19":"tag-la","20":"tag-la-headlines","21":"tag-la-news","22":"tag-los-angeles","23":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","24":"tag-los-angeles-news","25":"tag-new-station","26":"tag-population","27":"tag-safe-place","28":"tag-sale-tax"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}