Brown's new budget is a death blow to CalFires new HMT Facility.

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Jan 13, 2011, 2:51:48 PM1/13/11
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One might be wrong but Brown's new budget appears to be a death blow
to CalFires new County financed HMT Facility. It looks like the C130s
MAY HAVE TO GO to the old March AFB (it's being deactivated) with its
already improved runways, housing/rec facilities, and Class C
airspace.

So EDA, let's have a conversation about building a new public
gliderpark at 1/10,000th the cost....Hello, hello, anybody in
there? ;-)

LT

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California’s new Governor, Jerry Brown, facing a budget crisis, is
proposing significant reductions in funding for CalFire. Here is an
excerpt from MercuryNews:

…Brown’s budget also proposes major changes to the way California
battles wildfires. It calls for reducing the number of firefighters on
CalFire engine crews from four to three — putting them back to
staffing levels that existed before massive wildfires charred the
state in 2003. It also would shift a significant amount of fire
fighting responsibility that CalFire now oversees to cities and
counties.

Currently, fires are fought by three main entities in California.
Within municipal areas, city fire departments respond to blazes.
Roughly 50 percent of California’s land area is federally owned.
There, fire crews from the U.S. Forest Service and other agencies have
responsibility.

And on most of the land in between, rural areas across roughly 31
million acres known as “state responsibility areas,” CalFire is in
charge.

Brown’s budget proposes that cities and counties take over more fire
fighting responsibility in those areas. It says that $250 million
could be shifted from the state fire budget to local agencies, and
CalFire’s service area reduced. If that money were shifted, it would
represent nearly one-third of CalFire’s fire fighting budget from the
state general fund.
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