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The California Department of Corrections has closed the Rainbow Conservation Camp, but the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection will take over that facility.

“As they depopulate and we move the remaining inmates to another camp we are refurbishing the camp to have our firefighters based,” Cal Fire Capt. Frank LoCoco said.

Lynne Malinowski is a member of the Rainbow Community Planning Group and lives in Rainbow Heights approximately half a mile from the former inmate camp.

“We don’t want to see that property vacant,” she said.

“That Cal Fire said it would stay...