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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Auberry Volunteer Fire Department is facing a large fund crisis. Chief Rick Moore says, without immoderate intervention, they won't beryllium capable to enactment unfastened passim the summer.
"I got capable wealth to spell to the extremity of July," Moore said.
People who unrecorded successful the Auberry country gathered Tuesday nighttime astatine the Foothill Elementary School cafeteria to perceive conscionable however severely the fund situation has become, but besides to larn what imaginable solutions are being proposed.
"This is gonna beryllium a bully occurrence play from what I tin see, and we truly request sustainability of this occurrence station," 1 idiosyncratic expressed.
Moore says this contented comes from however the department's backing was primitively acceptable up, arsenic a assemblage work area, amended known arsenic a CSA. The Auberry Volunteer Fire Department serves CSA 50, which is an country of astir 50 quadrate miles successful northeastern Fresno County.
Moore says successful 2003, erstwhile homeowners established the CSA, each spot was acceptable to wage a yearly interest of $72, and region officials accidental it's hardly accrued since then, contempt the terms of everything other going up.
"We are a unpaid occurrence department, we are the archetypal enactment of defence for everybody wrong the assemblage work district," Moore said.
County officials adhd that their statement with the occurrence section is for $79,000 annually, but the occurrence section is spending implicit $100,000 each twelvemonth to enactment afloat and service the area.
Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig says his bureau is moving to amend the declaration to adhd $25,000 to the declaration for this year.
The wealth would inactive travel from the CSA, arsenic immoderate of what radical are already paying isn't going to the department.
In the agelong term, Magsig says caller solutions would request to beryllium enactment successful place, and says perchance a hospitality taxation connected region hotels oregon Airbnb-like rentals could help.
"Foothill and upland communities person been neglected successful the past. It's my extremity to marque definite that residents, careless if you're successful a metropolis oregon you're successful much agrarian parts of the county, that you person high-quality services," Magsig said.
This point volition beryllium successful beforehand of the afloat Fresno County Board of Supervisors connected May 20.
