A top fire official -- echoing the uneasiness of area hospital executives -- says that a new hospital at the California Institution for Men prison could overburden the Chino Valley's resources.
The worry comes as the Chino Valley Independent Fire District provides near daily response to emergency calls from the existing Chino-area prisons.
"We're obviously very concerned," said Chino Valley district Chief Paul Benson. "The impacts are obviously on the personnel and the resources of the fire district, but also on the community because of the demands that the existing prison has here on our fire district, our firefighters and our emergency personnel.
"This will only add to the current burden," he said.
Executives at Chino-area hospitals and medical facilities have also expressed fears that some of their skilled workers would be hired away if the prison hospital, now in the planning stages, is built.
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