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SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF EL DORADO HILLS AND CAMERON PARK
VOL. 32 ■ ISSUE NO. 5 ■ MARCH 5, 2025
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Photo courtesy of the El Dorado County Fire Protection District
Flames erupt from a Lonesome Dove Court home on Feb. 27. Two fire personnel were injured while helping to extinguish the blaze.
Photo by Charlene Lane /Charm Photography
The El Dorado Hills Chamber of Commerce business award winners celebrate their success. Left to right: Young Entrepreneur of the Year Devin Dedier; Start-Up Business of the Year owners Billy and Jamie Rose, Boring Rose Brewing Co.; Business of the Year owner David Ciapponi, GoldKey Storage; Home-Based Business of the Year owner Joey Starrett, Peak Design; and Excellence in Business of the Year winner Natalie Moore, CASA El Dorado. Read the full story and see more photos on page A2.
Cameron Park CSD, EDH Fire opt out of fire service annexation proposal Noel Stack
in the conversations but ultimately it came down to money. In a letter to the CPCSD board, Ashton notes, “El Dorado Hills provided a memo ... to Cameron Six months after the Cameron Park Community Park identifying the costs to staff Station 88 and Services District and El Dorado Hills Fire Station 89 with 3-0 staffed Department initiated talks to engines would be approximately annex CPCSD fire services plus an addiinto EDH Fire, the flames have “Cal Fire has been an amazing $6,393,000/year, tional onetime cost of approxifizzled out. mately $1.5 million related to partner. We’re leaning into “The decision was (that) El Dorado Hills was not affordthat relationship with Cal Fire. the• following: New Self-Contained able,” announced CPCSD Apparatus They are our fire department.” Breathing Board of Directors President • Apparatus capital replaceDawn Wolfson at the Feb. 19 meeting. — Cameron Park CSD General Manager ment catch-up • Alerting System 88 The decision was made after Maurice Johnson • Alerting System 89 directors held a special meet• Early hire of personnel ing earlier this month at which “Costs to staff a single station (e.g., Station 89) consultant Don Ashton recommended discontinuing would total approximately $3,618,000/year plus annexation discussions with EDH Fire. the additional one-time costs of $1.5 million as New interim CPCSD General Manager Maurice Johnson, who previously served as chief of EDH ■ See OPT OUT, page A7 Fire, said he thanks staff on both sides for engaging
First responders injured in Shingle Springs blaze Village Life staff A fire captain and firefighter from the El Dorado County Fire Protection District were injured while battling a residential fire on Lonesome Dove Court in Shingle Springs on Feb. 27, announced a press release from the fire district. During firefighting operations, the fire captain sustained serious burn injuries and was subsequently transported to UC Davis Medical Center for treatment, the release notes; while the firefighter sustained
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■ See FIRE, page A7
Special election set to fill EDHCSD seat Noel Stack Editor While El Dorado Hills residents continued to debate whether EDH Community Services District Director Chuck King did actually resign, the remaining four directors expressed a desire to move on and get back to the business of the people. ■ See ELECTION, page A7
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