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Residents warn cuts to Chester Gap Fire Department would raise response times; county grapples with cost and revenue limits
Summary
Multiple residents and Chester Gap volunteers urged supervisors to keep county funding of the Chester Gap Volunteer Fire Department, saying cutting the program would lengthen response times and risk lives in rural areas; county supervisors said revenue constraints and a cost-sharing arrangement with Rappahannock County complicate the decision.
At a Warren County budget public hearing, several residents and volunteer responders urged supervisors to maintain county funding for the Chester Gap Volunteer Fire Department and its cost-share emergency medical services, warning that cuts would increase response times in rural communities.
Sean Rowe, who identified himself as president of Chester Gap Volunteer Fire Department and a South River District resident, told the board the department's cost-sharing arrangement with Rappahannock County currently allows Warren County to receive "one firefighter EMT and one firefighter paramedic for a fraction of the cost of…
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