Yermo Gets Another Fire Apparatus

A fire truck donated by the county brings the number of vehicles available to respond to fires in Yermo up to three.

The Yermo/Calico Fire District, formerly known as the Yermo Fire Department, picked up a 1980 GMC 500-gallon water tank capacity truck Monday.

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors agreed to donate the truck, which was retired from the county fire department’s Morongo Valley station, at its meeting Sept. 16.

With the new truck, the Yermo/Calico district now has one rescue rig and two fire trucks available to respond to fires, car crashes and medical emergencies in Yermo station, said Assistant Fire Chief Bob Smith. Another truck will soon be moved to the district’s station in Calico, he said.

“The biggest thing is being able to have a second-roll fire apparatus, to where if we have two events simultaneously, we have the appropriate apparatus to roll in two different directions,” he said.

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