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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Fresno County Board of Supervisors is voting connected a program to support occurrence stations afloat staffed year-round.
The "Amador Plan" provides backing to support the Yokuts Valley, Piedra, Blasingame and Shaver Lake occurrence stations unfastened during the wintertime months.
This would increase fire extortion and different exigency services from July 1 done June 30 of 2026.
Division Chief Ryan Michaels says Cal Fire usually closes these stations astatine the extremity of occurrence season.
"Ultimately successful those wintertime months arsenic Cal Fire's mission, particularly successful the Fresno area, the writer gets green. We commencement getting our mean seasonal rains. The menace for wildfires present locally truly diminishes. But the Cal Fire, fractional of those unit are inactive available," Michaels said.
He says backing from Fresno County makes definite eastbound Fresno County is protected from different emergencies.
"We cognize it's going to marque a important quality arsenic we get into our wintertime months. What we tin bash with whether it's a location fire, a car clang oregon a aesculapian emergency, those Cal Fire resources volition beryllium there," Michaels said.
Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig says nether the existent declaration with Cal Fire says done the Amador plan, the work falls connected the region to support stations unfastened for the remainder of the year.
"What we've seen implicit the people of the past 10 years is occurrence play doesn't halt astatine the extremity of summer. It benignant of takes spot year-round. And truthful it's important to support each of our stations afloat staffed," Magsig said.
Magsig says keeping these stations unfastened year-round is captious for the public's safety.
"This is simply a apical precedence to marque definite residents passim the full region are kept safe, but particularly successful Eastern Fresno County, wherever we person truthful overmuch fuel, truthful galore dormant trees, conscionable making definite that we don't person immense fires that tin truly interaction people's lives," Magsig said.
Magsig and Michaels impulse radical to bash their portion successful preventing fires up of occurrence season.
"Keeping fuels 100 feet distant from your property, making definite that you mow those grasses and support them down. And doing that successful due times, too," Magsig said.
"Mowing the lawn, utilizing the weed eater, trying to summation immoderate defensible space, If you bash that successful the incorrect clip of day, successful the incorrect conditions, successful that adust receptive substance bed, you tin commencement a occurrence and past it's disconnected to the races," Michaels said.
The Fresno County Board of Supervisors volition beryllium voting connected the reimbursement statement on Tuesday.
