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| Inmate Emergency Services Training Resumes |
| By Victorville Daily Press |
| Published: 11/26/2002 |
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Looking to cover an often dangerous and sometimes under-covered area of the Interstate-15 freeway, the San Bernardino County Fire Department will resume training prison inmate firefighters, the San Bernardino Board of Supervisors voted recently. The inmate training had been suspended in June, when officials announced that the Baker Correctional Facility was going to be closed. After budget considerations, the correctional facility was kept open. Currently, the Fire Department said there are deficiencies in coverage out of Baker. At night, response comes from a fire station, 42 miles south, said Tracey Martinez, county Fire Department spokeswoman. Fire department officials and Baker officials advocate for a full time, permanent fire station in Baker. Concerned about heavy holiday traffic along the northern stretches near Baker, supervisors also ordered the Fire Department to temporarily base firefighters out of the Baker fire station, with plans to permanently station staff at Baker. The supervisors told the Fire Department to come up with short-term and long-term solutions on staffing the Baker area, to be presented by Dec. 10. 'During the holiday season, we want to provide the best service we can from Baker,' Martinez said. Thanksgiving is the busiest traffic day of year, she added. There will be full-time staffing out of Baker between Thanksgiving Thursday and Sunday night, said First District Supervisor Bill Postmus. The spending plan anticipates the adoption of 24-hour fire protection service out of the Baker facility. Currently, there is only Fire Department coverage based out of Baker between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Martinez said. 'We need to have a fire station that's manned 24 hours a day,' said Lee Hayes, the general manager of the Baker Community Services District. Martinez described the inmate training program as 'a portion of a long-term solution, not the solution. We need full-time staffing, and we need a fire station.' |
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