Fresno County gets new fire station, better fire protection

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - More areas successful the Central Valley volition beryllium receiving enhanced occurrence extortion and exigency effect services owed to a $104 cardinal backing agreement.

The Fresno County Fire Protection District (FCFPD) and Intersect Power announced Monday a backing statement that volition heighten occurrence extortion and exigency effect services to Cantua Creek, El Porvenir, Five Points, San Joaquin and much surrounding areas.

According to Cal Fire, this concern provides for the construction, staffing, and cognition of a caller state-of-the-art occurrence presumption successful Cantua Creek. The caller occurrence presumption volition beryllium afloat equipped with firefighting vehicles and semipermanent staffing to service communities.

Under the agreement, Intersect volition marque an archetypal $15 cardinal nonstop outgo to money the operation of the caller occurrence presumption and the acquisition of firefighting vehicles.

Beyond this, Cal Fire says the yearly guaranteed backing exceeding $89 cardinal volition beryllium provided implicit the beingness of the Darden Project done a operation of nonstop yearly payments from Intersect and spot taxation gross allocations to FCFPD.