The city agrees to furnish firefighting service to El Dorado Township, and all of the Prospect Township, except that portion thereof located in Sections 19 to 36, inclusive, in Township 25 South, Range 7 East of the 6th P.M. and Sections 18 to 33, both inclusive, in Township 25 South, Range 8 East of the 6th P.M., in Butler County, Kansas, and the residents thereof, whose property is situated outside the city limits of the city, but the city shall not be liable in any way for failure of its fire department to attend a fire or to put out a fire or for any other reason, but the city shall make a reasonable effort (road and weather conditions permitting) to attend outside fires, but the fire chief or captain of shift of the fire department, shall have the right in every case to determine whether or not the city can spare all or any portion of its fire equipment and firefighters at the particular time that they are called. (Prior code § 13-401)