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The private firefighters protecting wealthy estates

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When public services stretch thin, the ultra-wealthy just hire their own private army of water hoses. A booming luxury industry now exists where insurance firms deploy contracted, heavily armed private fire engines directly to the estates of billionaires during wildfires, completely bypassing the overwhelmed state fire grids to save the estates.

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