At tonight’s Redding City Council meeting, Councilman Patrick Jones is expected to suggest that volunteers should staff the city’s recently closed Station 2 — former home of trained, paid firefighters. Phil Fountain is a cartoonist, writer...
In the firefighting profession, time is everything.
The loss of a minute on a call could mean the difference between a home being damaged or completely destroyed. Time can translate to a person being rescued or mortally trapped.
So when Redding Fire Chief Kevin Kreitman points to a map …