There is a huge difference between San Diego County fire district and Santa Clara. SD Incorporated the volunteer stations into full time, ALS providing department and Santa Clara is essentially downgrading services. Santa Clara has no plans on staffing, equipment or any infrastructure in place whereas SD had all that in place prior to taking over . The folks in SD County essentially had a major upgrade to services whereas the folks in Santa Clara essentially downgraded.
They ( Santa Clara) has essentially asked the state to stay in place and provide coverage while the figure it out on the infrastructure wise. The area being taken over by the fire district has almost no tax base if any to support the operations, no agreements in place. .
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