‘Fire station planned for lonely 150-mile stretch of Mojave Desert’

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The owner of the remote Mojave Desert town of Amboy has donated two acres for what would be the only fire station along the lonely 150 miles between Barstow and Needles, according to San Bernardino County officials. “Response times in the Amboy area are a minimum of 1 hour 15 minutes,” county Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt said in a written statement. “A fire station (there) could provide emergency services … along the I-40 corridor, which would shorten emergency response times by 30 to 45 minutes to such unincorporated communities as Ludlow, Cadiz, Bagdad and Essex.” … (Continued below) …

… From PE News, February 24, 2010, By Richard Brooks … (Continued below) …

… County supervisors accepted the donation Tuesday from Albert Okura, owner of the Juan Pollo rotisserie chicken restaurant chain, who bought the 500-acre town along Route 66 in 2005 for $700,000. Okura soon began restoring the town – including Roy’s Café, the gas station, a motel, a post office, and a church building – in hopes of capitalizing on Route 66 nostalgia.

Link to online article: http://blogs.pe.com/news/digest/2010/02/fire-station-planned-for-lonel.html

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