Ron Fink
Ron Fink
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If the City Council were to vote tomorrow to increase the fire department staffing to the national average, they have nowhere to put it. They don't have anywhere to house new firefighters and equipment. Everything is resource related.
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The national standard of arrival in an emergency situation is four minutes. The typical response arrival time in Lompoc for the fire department is more than five and a half minutes and that's 65 percent of the time.
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Our intention is to provoke debate at the City Council level and to give some direction to public safety commission and city staff on how to resolve these issues that we've identified.
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I've never seen them this bad, this early in the thing. Usually this is toward the tail end of the second week, but we haven't had this kind of weather, except for the last couple of years, been pretty tough on ice sculptures.