Just as wildfire season is getting started, the Shasta Lake Fire Protection District is facing a serious blow.
Taxpayers failed to pass a property tax proposal, that would have helped fund the department.
Now, Fire Chief, Dennis Beck is facing some very tough choices.
"We could run the place into the ground again like we did a few years ago trying to keep folks here," Beck said.
He also says three positions in the department are currently being funded by a grant, but when it runs out, the positions likely will too, without the passage of the tax.
"That grant runs out February of 2019. At that point, when that money goes away, it will be very difficult, next to impossible for us to fund those three positions," Becksaid.