By Patric Hedlund, TME

Pine Mountain Club is proud of its firefighter-paramedic program, but in 2016, for the third year in a row, the program did not consistently meet required response time standards. Annual reports are typically submitted six months after the end of the preceding calendar year.

Pine Mountain community residents fought for over 17 years to bring a paramedic to Kern County Fire Station 58. Voters agreed to create a special tax on their properties to pay for…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Zone A’s response time mark is within 8 minutes, 59 seconds for all hot (lights and siren) paramedic first responders to arrive (measured from the call time to the Emergency Communications Center) in a minimum of 90% of the calls for each calendar month; and 100% of all hot call responses must be within 12 minutes, 59 seconds for each calendar month.

Zone B’s response time mark is within…

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