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AUBERRY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Auberry Volunteer Fire Department is facing fiscal challenges arsenic Fresno County officials enactment to support its doors open.
The volunteer-based occurrence department, with 14 volunteers currently, receives its funds from the CSA, Community Service Area.
Chief Rick Moore with the Auberry Volunteer Fire Department said the presumption is moving retired of funds.
"We're presently moving disconnected of a fund that was established successful 2003 erstwhile the CSA, the Community Service Area, was established," Moore said.
Moore said the section safeguards their section assemblage from 1 neighbour to another.
He said volunteers dedicate their clip to serving their ain friends and families successful the area.
"Our motto for our section is neighbors helping neighbors, due to the fact that virtually our radical are our volunteers from the community," Moore said.
Moore added that the archetypal fund created 20 years agone has the presumption struggling to support up with the costs of instrumentality and fuel.
"The archetypal 2003 statement was astir $72 per household, and similar I say, that was successful 2003 and present present we are successful 2025 and things person gone up a bit," Moore said.
Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig said the region is moving intimately with Chief Moore to debar closure.
"It is important that we person arsenic galore resources to combat occurrence successful the foothill and upland areas," Magsig said.
Magsig said unpaid occurrence departments are captious for the Foothill and Mountain areas for responding rapidly to fires and different incidents.
"A batch of these occurrence stations are responding to calls for service, aesculapian calls, automobile accidents," Magsig said.
Magsig said keeping the doors unfastened is pivotal for the information of foothills and upland residents.
"Making definite that they stay open, and they tin supply the level of work indispensable to residents is paramount arsenic acold arsenic I'm concerned," Magsig said.
The Auberry Volunteer Fire Department volition clasp a assemblage gathering connected Tuesday, April 29, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. astatine Foothill Elementary School to sermon the aboriginal of the station.
