Recordnet.com: Fire fee sparks protest

“SAN ANDREAS – Sure, this is Labor Day weekend. But now is no time for rural property owners in Calaveras County to go on long vacations and ignore their mailboxes, taxpayer advocates say. The owners of 23,244 Calaveras properties should, in the next few days, be getting bills for California’s new fire fee assessed on properties in so-called “state responsibility areas” for fire protection.”

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