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Contra Costa Fire Chief outlines HAZMAT annexation, Station 94 opening and EMS purchases
Summary
Fire Chief Bershard told supervisors the county's fire district will absorb the county HAZMAT/CUPA program on July 1 and add a new hazardous-materials fund, open Station 94 in Brentwood next year and use EMS transport reserves to buy 20 ambulances and finish a communications center.
Chief Bershard told the Board of Supervisors on April 28 that Contra Costa County Fire Protection District is preparing for two major operational changes next fiscal year: a July 1 transfer of county hazardous-materials (HAZMAT) and CUPA responsibilities into the district and the opening of Station 94 in Brentwood.
The HAZMAT transfer, Bershard said, will create a separate fee-funded hazardous-materials fund in the district's FY26-27 budget and will bring those programs and the CUPA into…
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