Firefighters let house burn down

- A fire station cannot levy a fine or place a lien on a house outside of its province, country, district, or state. Since the city was located across state lines, the fire department has no control over the ability to assess or levy fines to recoup the cost to put out the fire. An on-the-spot house assessment is simply not possible.

I'd definitely call this one the primary problem here - a region's fire coverage shouldn't be provided by someone unable to perform an assessment or levy a fine.