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Stockton Union Trying Hard to Prevent Truck Company Cut

October 29, 2008

City Manager Gordon Palmer said Tuesday that he is reconsidering his week-old proposal to close a firetruck company and to lay off 11 police officer trainees, negotiating with police and fire officials about alternative measures to reduce Stockton’s $23.5million deficit. The City Council late Tuesday put off a hearing on the matter, affording Palmer time [...]

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Stockton Fire Department Shuts Down a Truck Company

October 26, 2008

STOCKTON – The Fire Department’s Truck Co. 4 was gut-punched Wednesday morning. A casualty of the city’s yawning budget deficit, the company now faces likely closure and the reassignment of its firefighters throughout the city. Fire Chief Ron Hittle visited the station around 10 a.m. to deliver the news personally. It was the first time [...]

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Stockton Firefighters Tackle Fire in Old Victorian Style Home

October 1, 2008

It was a little after 3:30 p.m. Within an hour, 35 Stockton firefighters extinguished the single-alarm blaze, but the 100-year-old home at 1736 S. Stanislaus St. that Quinones, 72, had lived in for 25 years was a total loss. No one was injured, but a lot of memories were burned. A charred table was overturned [...]

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