Merced County supervisors to discuss possible fire station closures

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The aboriginal of Merced County's occurrence stations is up successful the air.

The Board of Supervisors is acceptable to conscionable Tuesday greeting to determine whether oregon not to adjacent oregon consolidate immoderate of the stations.

It's a hard determination that has immoderate successful the assemblage acrophobic astir the imaginable changes successful exigency services.

There are 3 antithetic options the Board of Supervisors volition consider.

The archetypal would beryllium to consolidate Station 92 successful Ballico and Station 64 successful Cressey, but it would besides adjacent McKee Fire Station 85.

The 2nd enactment would see those changes. In addition, it would merge Station 76 successful Dos Palos and Station 75 successful Dos Palos Wye, and adjacent Livingston Station 96.

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There is simply a 3rd option. It would support each 19 stations open, but they'd request 27 caller hires.

This would outgo Merced County astir $7 million.

All of this comes aft the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection notified officials successful February of past twelvemonth astir a staffing requirement.

There indispensable beryllium 2 occurrence unit connected work 24 hours a time astatine each station.

Right now, Merced County is the lone jurisdiction successful the authorities utilizing CAL FIRE services that's inactive operating beneath that level, with conscionable 1 idiosyncratic staffing 3 of the 19 stations.

The region volition conscionable astatine 8:30 americium to determine which enactment is best.