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Monday, July 24, 2023
Cameron Park CSD cancels medic contract Noel Stack Managing Editor Cameron Park’s Medic 89 may be on the move. Continuing efforts to ensure the Cameron Park Community Services District stays financially solvent, the CPCSD Board of Directors Wednesday night approved a resolution canceling the Advanced Life Support Ambulance Agreement between the El Dorado County Emergency Services Authority and the district. The decision will save the CSD approximately $180,000, according to a staff report. Cal Fire, which contracts with the district to provide fire services, currently staffs the ambulance out of Station 89 on Country Club Drive. Due to staffing issues — the Cameron Park Fire Department is down five firefighters with another on their way out — Cameron Park Fire Chief Dustin Martin said he supports the decision, with a pledge to keep the ambulance running to the best of his ability until a new agency takes over. “We are going to keep that ambulance staffed,” Martin told the board. “Our folks have lived with seven medic units in the system and they do not want to do that again.” The El Dorado County Emergency Services Authority provides administrative, financial and operational assistance to member agencies for a coordinated, fully integrated fire-based pre-hospital emergency medical and dispatch services for the county’s Western Slope, managing eight ambulances with partner agencies. • El Dorado Hills Fire Department, one ambulance • Cameron Park Fire Department, one ambulance n See MEDIC 89, page A6
UC Davis TERC photo by Alison Toy
Lake Tahoe experienced an extreme winter with a longer period of vertical mixing and Emerald Bay freezing over.
Clarity, changing food web detailed in Lake Tahoe report Emily C. Dooley UC Davis The Tahoe Environmental Research Center at the University of California, Davis, released its annual Tahoe: State of the Lake Report June 20, describing the past year as one of rapid biological change. The 2023 report presents data collected during 2022 and puts it in context with historical records. It also serves as an important resource for restoration, management and monitoring
decisions. UC Davis researchers have been monitoring the second deepest lake in the United States continuously since 1968, and the report provides an update for nonscientists on a variety of factors affecting the health of Lake Tahoe.
Rapid changes The report details changes in lake clarity and the possible links to a sudden decline in the mysis n See Lake Tahoe, page A6
Rescue fire captain wraps up FEMA special training Tina Crevier FEMA
Former Fire Chief Maurice Johnson, current Interim Fire Chief Bryan Ransdell, Fire Capt. Brett Jones and former Rescue Fire Chief Tom Keating, left to right, celebrate Jones’ training effort.
Rescue Fire Protection District Capt. Brett Jones has completed the National Fire Academy’s Managing Officer Program. The Managing Officer Program’s goals are to promote and enhance the professional growth of fire service leadership while preparing future leaders through a combination of education and linking people and ideas, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s U.S. Fire Administration/National Fire Academy. Participants in this program receive instruction on leadership, community risk reduction,
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firefighter and community safety, contemporary training issues and analytical tools for decision making. Students also gain critical insight concerning national response planning and incident management. This important two-year program comprises four unique courses requiring the participant to develop and complete a capstone project directly benefiting the fire officer’s department and community. This capstone project permits the student an opportunity to demonstrate application of course theory and concepts to real-life situations. The final project is then evaluated through n See Capt. Jones, page A3
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