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Residents press Angels Camp council for fire-readiness review and water-pressure assessment
Summary
Public commenters urged the Angels Camp City Council to order an in-depth review of the city’s ability to fight large, multi-structure fires, including hydrant pressure and mutual-aid water-sharing across Calaveras, Amador and Tuolumne counties.
Lance Frankie, a resident of Angels Camp, asked the City Council on Jan. 21 for an in-depth assessment of the city’s fire-suppression capacity in the event of a widespread, multi-structure conflagration.
Frankie told the council he was “concerned, how prepared we might be” and asked that the review include equipment, firefighting capabilities and “an assessment of water pressure delivery to our fire hydrants,” noting problems similar to recent Southern California incidents where multiple simultaneous structure fires…
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