In Los Angeles, if you want your home or business protected from fires, you must hire concierge firefighters. Gary Baum wrote in The Hollywood Reporter, “Such concierge-style protection first gained public notice after the Woolsey blaze in 2018, when TMZ reported that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West had hired a private team to help save their Hidden Hills compound.”
Not just Hollywood’s elite are hiring private firefighters. Utility companies whose infrastructure requires careful upkeep and major insurers like AIG and Chubb, are calling on the services of private firefighters. Even government jurisdictions needing to supplement their fire departments, or lack thereof. Writes Baum:
According to The New York Times, fire crews can cost between $3,000 and $10,000 a day. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the going rate per private firefighter is about $70 per hour, not including food and lodging.
We have all sorts of business supplying goods and services that the state in all its forms also supply. In most cases, the private business supply a good of higher quality and better service than any state agency. Therefore, people who did not want their houses burnt to a crisp hired these people in Los Angeles if they had the money to do it. That is a really simple, no-brainer decision if you could pay for it.