Canyon Lake Mayor Pro Tem Kasey Castillo, right, asks questions of City Manager Chris Mann, far left, about the city’s approved resolution that will cancel the city’s contract for services with CalFire Riverside County Fire Department in January 2022. Valley News/Courtesy photo
Jeff Pack
Staff WriterDuring its Wednesday, Nov. 4 meeting, the City of Canyon Lake City Council voted unanimously to terminate the city’s contact with CalFire Riverside County Fire Department, effective January 2022. Canyon Lake would become only the second Southwest Riverside County city to form its own fire department. Murrieta was the first. City Manager Chris Mann laid out the proposal for the resolution. “The city has been looking at options for many years, but in the last year and a half, since I've been here, we really intently looked at options to solve the situation for the city,” he said. “The first thing we thought is, ‘Okay, well, can we negotiate with the county? Can we reduce the rate? Can we talk about what that rate is?’ We quickly found tha
