Mike Robison

"They say your group can buy it like anybody else," CFPA District Manager Mike Robison said Tuesday."That's unfair to landowners.
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Robison said the Forest Service suggested the association could exchange lands of equal value for the fire station."But we don't own any property under the Oregon Department of Forestry ownership."

He said the Forest Service does not have to sell that station.

"They could keep it and let us use it," Robison said.
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Robison sent a letter to editors in the area seeking support for the CFPA's position.

In that letter, he said the Forest Service's sale of the one residence in Gold Beach, four in Brookings and the fire station would bring in much more than the $450,000 goal the forest service has set to address the needed building maintenance across the forest.
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Robison said transfer of the station to the CFPA "would keep this facility in the fire protection program for southern Curry County, thereby maintaining it for one of its originally intended purposes, fire protection.CFPA would continue to work with the Rogue-Siskiyou through cooperative agreements to maintain the current level of fire protection in this area."

Robison said the CFPA is not trying to "beat up" the Forest Service.

"They have resources still in the county," Robison said."We're not arguing that."

But he said the CFPA is against "the building put on the list and us having to pay a large sum of money for the benefit of the people."

District Manager for CFPA, Mike Robison, after explaining that his agency works closely with the U.S.Forest Service, pointed out that they have had a presence in Brookings since the 1950's.

"With the increased population , demands for fire protection has proportionately increased," stated Robison.At the same point, he added, the Forest Service is pulling out of Brookings with plans in place to sell the Forest Service facilities in that area and conduct business out of Gold Beach.

Robinson said that his agency's presence would stay in Brookings; however, he was seeking the BOC's support in working toward an interagency transfer of the warehouse property as a fair market value price would be expensive.

LaBonté also met with Mike Robison, District Manager for Coos Fire Protective Association, and said CFPA "would like to front the money for a project to train students in forestry fire management and fire planning so that the program can be offered this summer instead of the following summer.

MELVIN THORNTON and MIKE ROBISON, GUEST COLUMN
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Melvin Thornton, Douglas Forest Protective Association district manager; and Mike Robison, Coos Forest Protective Association district manager.
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Robison and Thornton oversee the two forest protective associations in southern Oregon.

District Manager Mike Robison said investigators are not releasing the origin of the fire.He said investigators are uncovering new evidence regarding the Hootman Fire and are attempting to rule out whether the blaze was intentionally set.

"We know that it's human caused and we're just following up on leads," he said."We have no reason to determine if it was arson."

Robison said investigators were able to rule out natural causes of the fire, such as lighting.