VALLEJO, CALIFORNIA’S LARGEST CITY IN BANKRUPTCY, has closed another firehouse effective 8 am Pacific time this morning. That leaves only five of their eight fire stations operating and reduces the daily minimum on-duty level to 18.
The station that they are closing is the Mare Island station that is primarily responsible for the area that was formerly a Naval base that was shut down several years ago. The land is prime for development, and thus a source of future tax revenue, but the city council has never been able to get their act together to initiate the growth.
The Mare Island station also houses the department’s only fire boat and it will be taken out of service also. The firehouse will continue to be used by the FD as a storage site for reserve apparatus. Any homes and businesses on the island will now have to wait an additional 3.5 minutes for fire/rescue response to their addresses unless the causeway bridge is up, which will add still another 5 minutes to the response time.
The Times-Herald has the complete STORY.
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