Mayor David Crocker on South Fulton’s Pay for Spray policy: “There’s no way to go to every fire and be able to keep the man power and the equipment for funding the fire department.”
A Tennessee woman who declined to pay an annual fire protection fee saw her home destroyed by fire when local firefighters came to the scene, but let her home burn to the ground.
For a service fee of $75, residents outside the South Fulton city limits are offered fire service. If residents don’t pay, the fire department does not extinguish fires at the unpaid residence. The program is nicknamed the ‘Pay for Spray’ program and has been in effect for about 20 years. Houses have burned to the ground before under the policy.
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