Based in Veneta, Lane Fire Authority has 15 stations from Santa Clara to Walton. Assistant Fire Chief Rose Douglass said inflation has greatly increased costs over the past couple of years.
“We know that it’s people’s valuable money that we’re using for these services,” Douglass said, “and so we look at every avenue we can and we say, ‘What can we do for cheaper? What can we cut?’”
Recently, she said, the district couldn’t make more cuts without impacting services, and they had to shut down an ambulance and dip into reserve funds…