Response times improving after Santee opens interim fire station

Response times improving after Santee opens interim fire station

Santee recently opened its first new fire station since 1964, part of a larger effort to broaden coverage and improve response times as demand for emergency services increases. Interim Fire Station 20, in the southwestern part of the growing East County city, began operating Oct. 14. The expansion comes less than a year after residents rejected Measure S, a tax increase that  would have funded a permanent fire station at the interim station’s so…