Ripon residents come together to fundraise for understaffed fire district ...Middle East

That's been the case now for over 10 years.

Brodie is one of the 20 key members of their community group called "With Ripon Fire."

"We came together as a group of retirees and people that are still working, just to say that we can't do this," Brodie continued. "We just started last Saturday going door to door, and it was very successful. Probably one of the first things that people didn't realize was the staffing, that there is just one truck."

For a department that covers 56 square miles with 2,600 calls a year and nearly a thousand of those calls coming in at the same time, it puts a major strain on the current staff.

"If we can leave the call we're on, get it wrapped up, and then move on to the next one, that's obviously the best of the scenarios," Ripon Fire District Chief Eric DeHart explained. "If we can't, then we have to rely on our neighbors to come, which has proven that on average it takes them between 12 and 14 minutes to get from the time they dial 911 until that fire engine arrives on scene."

The issue now is funding. That's where the district needs to turn to the community to vote on a benefit assessment.

That's where Brodie and his group at "With Ripon Fire" are trying to advocate for, going door to door every weekend, spreading information and connecting the community with their local fire department.

The benefit assessment would cost single-family homeowners about $249 a year, or $21 a month.

Ballots will be given out two months before the vote, which is set for Aug. 14.

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