Livingston votes to authorize legal action against Merced County over fire house closure

To support Station 96 open, Merced County would request to walk $6.9 cardinal to prosecute much firefighters.

LIVINGSTON, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Livingston City Council precocious voted to authorize ineligible enactment against Merced County aft region officials voted to adjacent a fashionable CAL FIRE station.

The determination comes aft the region voted to adjacent CAL FIRE Station 96 successful Livingston and McKee Fire Station 85 owed to staffing concerns.

Right now, the region lone has 1 idiosyncratic staffing 3 of its stations 24 hours a day, but CAL FIRE requires two.

"I deliberation it's the biggest mistake the region has ever made," said Livingston City Councilmember Robert Wallis.

Wallis says keeping the presumption unfastened is simply a substance of beingness oregon death.

"I've had 8 stents in, I've had 4 bosom attacks, I'm inactive here, the occurrence section got to maine close away. The ambulance took me, they saved my life. There's a batch of different radical successful the metropolis who's successful the aforesaid boat," said Wallis .

To support Station 96 open, the region would request to walk $6.9 cardinal to prosecute much firefighters.

It's wealth the region has antecedently said it doesn't have.

Action News reached retired to the Livingston politician and metropolis manager.

The 2 officials accidental they can't talk connected closed league discussions, but they did stock a connection that says, successful part:

"The City continues to enactment towards a collaborative solution with the County which ensures Station 96 remains unfastened for Livingston and adjacent County residents. However, we volition see each our options to support the wellness and information of the City of Livingston. Fire extortion remains a apical precedence for the City of Livingston."

We did scope retired to Merced County for comment, but we person yet to perceive back.

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