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Ross council hears fire department response‑time report as residents press to reopen local station
Summary
Ross Valley Fire Chief Dan Mahoney presented July–Oct 2025 response‑time data showing a 90th‑percentile engine time of 10:56 and ambulance time of 14:02 (9:34/9:52 if incidents outside Ross are excluded). Residents and the Friends of the Ross Firehouse urged restoring the Ross station; council asked staff for more data and scheduled further review.
Ross Town Council received a presentation on Dec. 17 from Ross Valley Fire Department Chief Dan Mahoney summarizing response‑time data from July 1–Oct. 31, 2025, and opened the floor to an extended public discussion about the closure of Ross Fire Station 18.
Using the CityGate methodology employed in the 2019 standards‑of‑cover report, Chief Mahoney said the 90th‑percentile fire engine response time for the sample was "10 minutes and 56 seconds" and the ambulance 90th‑percentile was "14 minutes and 2 seconds." He also offered a Town‑limits‑only calculation that reduced those numbers to "9 minutes and 34 seconds" for engines and "9 minutes and 52 seconds" for ambulances after excluding incidents outside the Ross town…
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