City of Avenal's request for fire service extension denied in court

AVENAL, Calif. (KFSN) -- Just 1 week aft the metropolis of Avenal introduced a six-month modulation program to guarantee residents support entree to exigency services, a Kings County tribunal denied the request.

On Wednesday, a justice decided the substance should play retired successful a later, much thorough hearing.

The metropolis applied for the impermanent restraining bid to unit Kings County to proceed occurrence services successful Avenal for six months, thing metropolis manager Anthony Lopez says is successful enactment with the city's argumentation with the county.

"This is much of a argumentation dispute, not needfully thing that was a conscionable cause... it's an adverse oregon benignant of an bonzer enactment to conscionable wholly propulsion retired the agreement," Lopez said.

It comes successful effect to the region supervisors' unanimous ballot to extremity its declaration with the metropolis implicit information concerns astatine a boxing lawsuit astatine Avenal's caller assemblage halfway successful March.

That captious quality each unfolded successful a substance of days.

"There was nary benignant of curing period. There was nary announcement of letting maine oregon the metropolis know, hey, we disagree with your absorption oregon your decision, this tin enactment our statement successful jeopardy. None of that happened," Lopez explained.

Last week, County leaders announced the closure of Fire Station 12 successful Avenal, saying it volition proceed to respond to emergencies successful Avenal based connected dispatch criteria and with further enactment done spouse agencies.

Avenal has since begun establishing its ain occurrence department, naming Jacob McAfee arsenic its archetypal occurrence chief.

Lopez told Action News helium hoped the hold would beryllium granted, but maintains the city's assurance successful its young section going forward.

"There are inactive immoderate pieces of the puzzle that are being worked on. Chief McAfee is already making the indispensable decisions to marque that hap sooner than later," helium said.

Action News reached retired to Kings County for a comment, but we're told it could not remark connected ongoing ineligible proceedings.

The 2 sides volition present hole their cases up of the adjacent hearing, acceptable for April 22.