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many Cal Fire stations are within 1.5 miles of another fire station
who cares?
let me share my thought process -
I think this is the portugal system - >>> they have 250 fire stations
- each fire station has structural fire trucks and some wildland fire
trucks - in the summer, they hire college kids to staff the wildfire
trucks - there are no separate wildfire stations
using that info to look at the calfire system, if California used the
Portugal system, they could close down approx 100 CDF stations, with
no significant loss of coverage - that is approx 50% of the CDF
stations
question - selling off 100 fire stations would raise how much money?
would save how much in insurance and mtnce and utility costs? would
actually simplify and improve dispatching and response by how much?
on the other hand - many of the stations near the calfire stations are
probably very old and cant be used to house a 24 hour crew
in any case - there are at least 4 locations where a cdf station is
right next to a local station - and no sharing happens - escondido +
nevada city + visalia + Copperopolis
and there are many tiny towns that have a cdf station at 1 end of town
and a local station at the other end of town
and there are many calfire stations that close down totally in the
winter - but I suspect that no one really misses many of them because
there is no one living near them in the winter
but there are also many locations that go from a fully staffed engine
in the summer to absolutely no fire protection in the winter
??????????