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Redding, California- Last week's fire at the vacant former King Richard's car dealership on Pine Street in downtown Redding posed a test of the city's shrunken Fire Department, which has seen firefighters cut and one station closed as the city curbs spending to match lower tax revenues. In brief, the single fire cleared out every [...]

MAGALIA, Calif. – A one of a kind nursery in Butte County isn't ready to turn off the water yet. State budget cuts are forcing Cal Fire to shut down the Magalia Reforestation Nursery, but more than a 130,000 seedlings ranging from ponderosa pine to red fir need to be sold by the end of next [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Cal Fire, the state's firefighting agency, is facing a budget cut in excess of $30 million for fiscal year 2011-2012, and will trim staffing on engines from four down to three to cover most of it. Starting in 2003, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an annual executive order bumping engine crews to [...]

Cal Fire has been faced with a $30 million budget cut for the fiscal year 2011-2012. For the most part, this will be dealt with by reducing staff from four down to three people on each engine. In 2003, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made an executive order for all crews to have four people, in order [...]