Del Norte fire district asks Rio Grande County for help exploring funding for Emergency Operations Center

Aug 28, 2024

Del Norte Fire Protection District leaders told the commissioners the district is struggling financially and asked whether federal or state funds could support remodeling and an Emergency Operations Center; the board requested a work session with all four county fire districts to discuss funding.

The full story

At the Aug. 28 meeting, Terry Haynie, chairman of the Del Norte Fire Protection District, and Ryan Haynie, the district secretary, told the Rio Grande County Board of Commissioners the district is struggling financially and wants to remodel a new firehouse and create an Emergency Operations Center (EOC). Ryan Haynie said the district had approached the board about an EOC roughly four years earlier and asked whether any COVID-era funding remained.

Free newsletter

Sign up to keep reading.

Your free newsletter brings you what your city council, county, and school board discussed and decided.

or
Already have an account? Sign in