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Commission raises concerns over solar‑farm access, maintenance and responder training
Summary
Commissioners asked county staff to enforce special‑use permit requirements and to press solar developers for marked addresses, contact numbers and annual first‑responder training after responders faced muddy access and lengthy fire suppression at recent solar‑site incidents.
Pittsylvania County fire leaders told the commission Aug. 21 that several recently developed solar facilities have not consistently met permit commitments for road maintenance, marked addresses and annual first‑responder training.
Chiefs described responses to three solar‑site incidents in the county. At one scene, responders waited for a site…
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