Oh wait. Soooo it’s not cheaper? I’m shocked.
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Anyone know how the community outreach meeting went in San Martin?
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Not likely to be a good relationship between the central Santa Clara county fire district and CALFIRE after this move. The county is spending a pretty penny to try to force CALFIRE out, but still wants to rely on them for resources like dozers, aircraft, and crews since they have none. Too bad their plan is to staff engines out of hotels and temporary stations for likely years until they can secure land and build stations. I feel terrible for their personnel.
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Too bad those resources aren’t free.
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Does the dstrict fall under SRA or LRA?
LRA, it’s been a Calfire contract since the 80’s
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Although a Local Government provider isn’t the South Santa Clara Fire District predominantly SRA ? The State providing State wildland fire protection and the District providing the municipal fire service?
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A lot of the remote areas of the district are SRA, yes. But there’s a lot of LRA in the hills surrounding Morgan hill, San Martin and Gilroy.
Here is a district map:
Here’s a map that the county made with their district logo on it before LAFCO even approved the merger:
https://files.santaclaracounty.gov/exjcpb1611/2025-02/socofire_sra-map.pdf?VersionId=Ck5DPr1QwDKrmxWYZnQVbeNIRGobtfnF
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Continuing the discussion from Santa Clara County ends Cal Fire contract for rural communities:
Thanks for the map. I’m reminded how long it’s been sine my last fire there … many years have changed the map more than a bit😊
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Clearly CAL FIRE is too expensive.
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It has nothing to do with cost. The alternative is far more expensive.
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Was being facetious, CAL FIRE is double the apparatus at half the cost based on your chart.
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hard to tell these days! Some people are really that dense!
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That’s interesting I know alot of rural districts still fall under SRA for wildland.
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The Santa Clara County LAFCO voted to approve the dissolution of the South Santa Clara Fire District and annexation of the affected territory into the Central Fire Protection District (Santa Clara County Fire) earlier today.
https://www.youtube.com/live/adjun0giTSw
Meeting here.
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Good luck providing identical service in 3 months! Their report said they wouldn’t have the staff in place until September, and that was with Calfire continuing an Amador agreement, which they stated they will not.
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I appreciate the video. Morgan Hill city manager Christina Turner laid some dirty laundry in her 3 mins on the floor, she starts at 30:00 or so. Notably watching the Santa Clara FD chief in the background with wandering eyes and facial expressions had me rolling while she was at the podium. Also allegedly all communication with Calfire stopped evidently, Months ago.
Sounds like bad relationships over anything fiscal. Heard some rumors, but that’s all they are and we’ll never know. Nothing is certain, hope all the Schedule A staff land where they can hope at this point.
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Hello All!
Long time member, just getting back after a long, very long, hiatus. Was interested in this thread because our small rural, San Diego County community went thru this very same thing some years ago. Our local paper did an extensive write up about the separation of Cal-Fire from the community. I’ll see if I can find the story. Stand by one…
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Trying to understand your post. San Diego County Fire Protection District accepting responsibility for a large portion of the unincorporated areas of county and providing 24/7 ALS staffed stations with 100% staffing paid for by the county is totally different than a fire district assuming assuming responsibility for an area with no plan or money, or infrastructure. The residents of the San Diego back country made out big. The residents of Santa Clara County lost big time. Control and money always seem to poke their ugly heads out when it comes to doing the right thing.
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