Privatization of emergency workers

It’s not cheap to train and staff first responders; helicopters are expensive. There is no money to be made putting out the average four-alarm fire, or whisking a terrified, middle-class family off a rooftop after a flood. If first responders are privatized, we can't count on the local EMT's or the Fire Department to save lives or property. First responders would have to check for authorization for immediate action from a corporate agent who would make decisions based only on what’s good for his company’s bottom line. What if we ran critical emergency services for profit, using the conservative privatization model utilized by for-profit healthcare insurance companies?