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By Lynn Volkens
Timberline Fire Protection District (TFPD) board members Rick Wenzel, Jim Crawford, Kay Johnson and Paul Ondr met in a work session with Gilpin County Commissioners on February 26, 2013, to discuss ways for the County and fire district to work together, said Crawford by way of introduction. Crawford provided an update of TFPD’s actions over the past year, including the hiring of a full-time fire chief and the six new fire trucks TFPD has purchased, five of them via lease-purchase. “We’re working on developing partnerships with our neighbors with mutual aid agreements and we want to work on developing a relationship with the County,” he said. He asked what TFPD could do to support the County, “Do you want regular reports from us, workshops?” he asked. “There’s no one responsible for doing emergency preparedness and planning and we can’t do that for people who aren’t paying taxes to our district,” Crawford said, but offered to “collaboratively look” at no-man’s lands and “who can do what” to help those areas prepare and mitigate fire risk. “Then there’s what the County can do to support us,” he went on.
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