From the Post Independent: Three Colorado fire departments and rural fire and ambulance districts serving the Glenwood Springs, New Castle, Silt and Rifle may reorganize as a regional fire authority.

The three departments already have since signed an Automatic Aid Agreement, allowing them to “share resources and personnel based upon actual or anticipated response needs.” The agreement essentially allows the departments to act as a fire authority before one exists.

The agencies’ chiefs have proposed to form a steering committee made up of elected officials from the affected jurisdictions to study the details and look at the feasibility of forming a regional fire authority. Read the entire article here.