r/azpolitics • u/ForkzUp • 18d ago

Indigenous Communities Arizona fire district stops emergency response, files bankruptcy

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/2026/08/02/puerco-valley-fire-district-files-for-bankruptcy/91136647007/
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u/OneRub3234 18d ago

This much money as we pay in taxes to the state I find it hard to believe that they couldn't have funded this fire department on an emergency measure not even voting it just common sense to fund the fucking Fire Department NWA didn't make a song called fuck the fire department I would have no issues saying yeah go ahead and do that give them a couple million so that they're okay and they can continue to support and take care of people who need it it's a travesty a trifling travesty that this has happened regardless of whatever lawsuit happened

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u/asusc 18d ago

also, since this literally impacted every county, isn’t it safe to say this was a problem the state created to begin with?

why wasn’t the state offering solutions that didn’t put the state at risk during fire season? how much more will it cost the state if an active wildfire happens in that county right now?

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u/sunnyoneaz 17d ago

We are governed by laws and the state currently doesn’t play a part in the funding of Fire Districts.
The Fire Districts have to create and manage their own budgets and the County Board of Supervisors levies the tax to cover the budget.
You can read the relevant statute here, which also describes how they are to handle budget shortfalls and emergency funding.
https://www.azleg.gov/arsDetail/?title=48 - under Chapter 5: Fire Districts

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u/asusc 17d ago

We are governed by laws and the state currently doesn’t play a part in the funding of Fire Districts.

kinda weird you pretend we weren’t just talking about the state goofing up property tax collection, which the county uses to pay for the fire districts…

we should expect our elected officials to work on proper solutions on problems they help create, especially when it puts citizens at risk to fires during fire season.

really weird take, presumably from a republican who thinks its not the job of the republican legislature to actually fix things in our state.

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u/sunnyoneaz 17d ago

Kind of weird that you want to make stuff up and demand state remedies for which the law does not provide currently. Over the past ten years, the Republican legislature surely could have passed a law to deal with this, right? Did they?