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Fair Oaks recruitment of volunteer firefighters moving slowly

SUTHERLIN — A handful of volunteers is trained and ready, but the Fair Oaks Fire Department doesn’t have enough to resume responding to calls this week, Fire Chief Robert Mock said Tuesday. Mock had hoped to be ready by Nov. 1, but the end of the year will be a more realistic target, he said. “It isn’t the sweet success story I wanted, but everything is going to work out. It will just take some time,” Mock said. “That’s the way it is with volunteer fire departments.” Mock, a former Roseburg firefighter, was appointed in September to rebuild the troubled …

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