Menlo Park firefighters helping to evacuate Texas residents

With all these assignments out of our district, are we short firefighters here and does it cost us as taxpayers in this district more money. Are we totally compensated for all the overtime and out of pocket expenses?

"Taking care of our local community is always our first priority and we continue to balance those priorities against existing State and Federal missions and additional potential and actual requests.

To that end, we will continue to hold off sending additional resources to State Wildfires until next week while we continue to monitor the evolving flooding in Texas and now Louisiana. The heat wave and local fire activity may also create local need for potential up staffing which may need to be addressed. "

Chief Schapelhouman

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The District is fully reimbursed for all the costs of these deployments including overtime and the cost of backfilling vacated positions.

Thank you for the explanation. Lookalike we re in good hands here.

The residents of the Fire District also greatly benefit from the experience gained by these deployed firefighters.

There is no way that a "normal" urban firefighter would have the depth of disaster response and wildland fire experiences that MPFPD firefighters have accumulated over the years.

The people who pay the real price for these multi-day deployments are the firefighter's families.

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