On last week’s Z107.7 Up Close Show, host Gary Daigneault spoke with County Fire Chief Dan Munsey and County Board of Supervisors Chairman Dawn Rowe. Chief Munsey discussed the future of the Yucca Valley Fire Station. A new location was considered for the station, but Chief Munsey said
“You look around Yucca Valley and see all this vacant land, and you’d think it would be easy to find a place to build a fire station. We use very sophisticated modeling to predict where the calls will be, and we try to position the fire station in the place where we think it will do the most amount of good for the most amount of people, and have the shortest response times.
“Right where the fire station is currently, its a great location. We looked at six or seven other parcels that were outpriced what we could pay, and we’re not allowed to do that, according to the law.
We found a lot right next to the California Welcome Center. We were really excited. We started announcing the plan to build the fire station, and then we found out that there would be a new median put right there in the roadway, CalTrans was not willing to put a stoplight to allow for fire engines, and that would force fire engines to go east all the way to Sage to turn around, and that would lengthen response times.”
Munsey explained that funding would be used to renovate the existing fire station, located near on Twentynine Palms Highway near Old Woman Springs Road, saying,
“Fire Station #41, our downtown Yucca Valley fire station, was originally built in the 40s, and its been added on to over time.”
You can listen to the full conversation with Chief Munsey and Supervisor Rowe by listening to the Z1077 Up Close Show as a podcast at our website our wherever you get your podcasts.
