fire station

Retained firefighters - predominantly based in rural areas with a lower population density than bigger cities - are on-call emergency responders who live near their local fire station and jump in an appliance when needed.

There is no fire station in the nearest communities of Cantua Creek, Five Points and Three Rocks.

We also visited the site of a proposed Sylmar fire station for which there was a groundbreaking ceremony about two decades ago.

How much money that is depends on factors such as the amount of time served, how busy their fire station was and what rank they attained.

Flowers have also been left at the fire station.