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A firefighter hoses down a burning house from the Lightning Complex Fire along Pleasants Valley Road in Vacaville last year.

Response to Grand Jury:

Supervisors, Cordelia Fire agree, rural districts need more funding Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Rural fire districts in Solano County need an immediate and urgent infusion of operational funding in order to better respond to the kind of devastating wildfires the county has experienced in recent years. That was a foundational conclusion reached by the Solano County civil ground jury that investigated the risk to county residents from wildfires. While the report acknowl-

edges the efforts the county is making – such as rural district consolidation – the grand jury equally made it clear that more needs to be done immediately. The grand jury report states Solano County should “immediately make resources available to the (fire districts) to deal with the new wildfire environment.” In its response to the grand jury report, the Cordelia Fire Protection District noted its full agreement to the three findings and corresponding recommendations made by the

grand jury. It supplemented that with specific areas of improvement that included a single county fire district for the unincorporated area, a single computer-aided dispatch system for the cities and the unincorporated area and “immediate and urgent shortterm funding to address the gaps in personnel, equipment and resources sufficient to address needs in 2021-22.” A unified dispatch and communications system is something the county has

been working on for a number of years. The Board of Supervisors, on Tuesday, discussed its response to the grand jury report, noting essentially the longer-term efforts that are needed. “The county’s responses to the grand jury’s findings and recommendations reflect the county’s continuing commitment to address the threat from wildfires and the actions being taken or which are See Rural, Page A10

Volunteers make Coastal Cleanup Day a success Susan Hiland shiland@dailyrepublic.net

SUISUN CITY — Local Boy Scouts found nearly a complete living room set while doing the 37th Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day at the Suisun Marina. Evangeline Pace, 12, with her Boy Scouts Troop 818 of Fairfield, was surprised by the coach, along with a painting and other living room items. “It was kind of funny,” she said. “I’m glad we are doing this today because it helps keep our community healthy.”

Her father, pack leader Don Pace, brought out more than 30 Scouts along with parents and friends from Solano County for about two hours of cleanup work. For him, it has been seven years of helping remove trash from the banks of the waterways in Suisun City. “It was a really good turnout this year,” he said. Don Pace said that after all the hard work, he plans to take some of the Scouts fishing for the afternoon. There were a number of cleanup sites, including in all seven Solano County cities as

well as Solano County parks and at Lake Berryessa, most requiring volunteers to register in advance. It’s a three-hour community event that happens on the third Saturday of September and is designed not only to clean trash from local waterways but to educate people about the significance of those waterways. Amcor Rigid Plastics, a plastic bottle manufacturing company, helped with the organization for the day. This is the sixth year the company has See Cleanup, Page A10

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Boy Scouts help collect trash during the 37th Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day at the Suisun City Marina parking area, Saturday.

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