Councilwoman, Fire Union Call For More Temporary Fire Stations in San Diego

Originally authored by Alexander Nguyen. Visit the Times of San Diego here. To see the original article, please click here.

With groundbreaking just a few days away for a temporary fire station designed to reduce response times in San Diego’s Skyline neighborhood, Councilwoman Myrtle Cole and a firefighter union leader Wednesday called for more provisional facilities in the city.

Encanto is a neighborhood that could use such a station, according to Cole and Alan Arrollado, the firefighter’s union president.

Their comments came after San Diego Fire-Rescue Department Chief Javier Mainar delivered an annual report, to the City Council’s Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee, on progress made in implementing recommendations of a consultant that were issued four years ago.

[…]

The consultant, Citygate Associates of Folsom, issued its recommendations in February 2011 and they’ve since been treated by city officials as a blueprint for the future of the SDFRD.

 To read the full article, please click here.