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Mono City fire chief says town lacks apparatus space, seeks county help

3296866 · January 14, 2025
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David Swisher, chairman of the Mono City Fire Commissioners, told the Mono County Board of Supervisors that the department lacks a heated building and adequate storage for a 2,000-gallon water tender and aging apparatus and urged the board to consider assistance.

David Swisher, chairman of the Mono City Fire Commissioners, asked the Mono County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 2025 to consider assistance for additional fire apparatus and a building to house it, saying the department’s current station is too small and underfunded.

Swisher said the department’s station was reconstructed from an employee housing building built in the 1980s and “barely fits our current apparatus,” adding that crews “clear the doors by 1 inch when we come in.” He said Mono City acquired a…

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