Pomona closing Fire Station 181

[PaulNDaOC]

The city council voted 5-2 to close station 181. The light force is being relocated to Station 185 and Engine 185 is being shutdown.

A couple of squads will also soon be shifting locations.

http://file.lacounty.gov/bc/q3_2012/cms1_182900.pdf

 

[Code20Photog]

The Pomona units get spanked like a cheap Vegas hooker. It's only going to get worse.

 

[ctadam12]

Next will be their P.D. L.A.S.O., here we come...

 

[tsalmrsystemtech]

I don't think people really realize how bad California's economy is. It is horrible and the media keeps sugar coating it. I think it will take 5 to 10 years for California to turn around if it does. I think we are such in a ditch I don't believe there is a way out.

I think it was around 10 to 15 years ago that Pomona use to have their own fire department and they did a survey and LACOFD eventually took over the fire department and now LACOFD is closing their Pomona stations now. Wait until a natural disaster happens and it will.

Cal-Tech has said over and over that its not if at this point it when the ground is going to shake like a red headed step child and the big is going to hit and our resources won't be here to save us.

O well lets think for the worst and hope for the best.

 

[Denverpilot]

Actually we do, do we're trying not to mimic the same overspending mistakes.

You guys have Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and some of the largest earners on the planet -- and you still can't keep a budget??? If California is "broke" and can't fix it, what's Detroit? They're at least starting to rebuild. Is California's debt getting bigger or smaller?

(Not trying to be harsh, but sheesh. Whatever you're all doing, tell your politicians to stop. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.)

 

[jrholm]

Actally LA County itself is fairly souund. Things aren't great but they aren't nearly as bad as other places. L.A. County is not choosing to close the fire station de to their money problems, it's the city of Pomona that is looking to save a dollar here.

 

[Denverpilot]

Actally LA County itself is fairly souund. Things aren't great but they aren't nearly as bad as other places. L.A. County is not choosing to close the fire station de to their money problems, it's the city of Pomona that is looking to save a dollar here.

Sounds like Pomona is trying to break their spending problem.

Whether or not they chose to drop critical services before non-critical, and are good stewards of their funds, only the locals could say.

My comments were very general. California from the outside looks a lot like a teenager learning that they have to pay back that credit card they ran up. And they ran it waaaay up.

What's weird is, the teenager in question has one of the highest paying jobs any teen has ever had, so if said teenager would just set some hard priorities on spending that are appropriate, they'd be out of the woods in no time, and on their way to prosperity.

Kinda odd to close a firehouse before a lot of other things though, unless the people that were served by it suddenly moved away. Was there a mass exodus from Pomona?

Just wondering. Way too far away for me to know... Always curious about stuff like that. Try to make sure it never happens here, too... by watching and learning.

 

[karldotcom]

The entire state has a spending problem and they put some raises in the last state budget!

 

[Code20Photog]

Sounds like Pomona is trying to break their spending problem.

Kinda odd to close a firehouse before a lot of other things though, unless the people that were served by it suddenly moved away. Was there a mass exodus from Pomona?

Fire Services are exorbitantly expensive. Salaries, pensions, equipment, overhead, it's a *lot* of money.

 

[Denverpilot]

Fire Services are exorbitantly expensive. Salaries, pensions, equipment, overhead, it's a *lot* of money.

Understood. My point was that usually, critical services like Fire can't be pulled without a fairly significant backlash of voters when circumstances conspire and response times double or triple.

Unless... The house is in a bad place after folks have moved away or inside the district to another location.

It's a lot easier to cut "non-essential" services and lots of them, prior to closing core City functionality.

Too far away to say from here. Almost all suburbs here have moved to merging Districts into mega-districts that cover multiple Municipalities. Only the biggest suburbs and small cities have kept their single-city Departments. Economics of scale. A giant District has a lot more leverage on vendors.

 

[tsalmrsystemtech]

Fire Services are exorbitantly expensive. Salaries, pensions, equipment, overhead, it's a *lot* of money.

Yes Fire Services are expensive and it needs to be maintained no matter what. If anybody has a life threathing event you want to best of the best and the most trained to save your families life or yourself. Also, your own property if you have a major event or a natural disaster which will come. Cut other parts of the states budget except police and fire.

 

[jrholm]

One of the problems is the people and the government of this state don't realize what their core services are. They think welfare is a core service.

 

[monitor142]

Sign of the times I guess. The City of Stanton in Orange County pulled the plug on their truck company at OCFA Station 46. They converted the medic engine back to BLS and added a medic van. All told they shaved off 3 positions per a shift.

 

[Robertolson]

Sign of the times I guess. The City of Stanton in Orange County pulled the plug on their truck company at OCFA Station 46. They converted the medic engine back to BLS and added a medic van. All told they shaved off 3 positions per a shift.

I thought I heard medic 46 on the Radio the other day ? thought I was hearing things ?

Back in the late 70's prop 13 killed all the 4 man engine company's & made them 3 man Engine co's just something we must live with for now.

 

[scottyhetzel]

Exactly

One of the problems is the people and the government of this state don't realize what their core services are. They think welfare is a core service.

People rather be on unemployment than min. Wage.... Large excessive pensions are killing the cities too.

 

[zerg901]

When the big one hits -

there will be 10 stations to handle 1,000 incidents

the low bidder did all the structural reinforcement work

the low bidder installed the CAD and radio systems

the low bidder installed all the water mains

etc