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Council allocates reimbursement appropriation for Fresno Fire mutual-aid deployments
Summary
The council approved an appropriation to cover overtime costs from the city’s firefighter mutual-aid deployments; staff said reimbursements come from the state’s OES and flow into the general fund before being allocated back to the fire department.
The Fresno City Council voted 5-0 to appropriate funds to cover overtime and associated costs from recent out-of-county mutual-aid deployments by the Fresno Fire Department.
Fire Chief Billy Alcorn told council members the department currently has about 18 personnel deployed under mutual aid — three engines with four personnel each (12 firefighters) and several single resources — working on fires including the Palisades and Eaton fires near Pasadena. Chief Alcorn described the city’s use of California Office of Emergency…
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