Station Design
A fire station is more than just a building — our station design topic deals with important considerations for building and managing facilities that will enable efficient operations and response while addressing your members’ health and safety.
Ground was broken on the roughly 10,000 square-foot Clarksville Fire Station, which will replace the station that’s stood since 1977
Keep critical gear and equipment stored properly to increase safety and prolong the life of your PPE and tools
The new 22,000-square-foot Fire Station 1 is equipped with rapid opening doors synchronized to its emergency alarms
The 50kW, 176-panel solar array that converted the firehouse to solar power was installed last year at a cost under $60,000
Reasons to move the Santa Rosa station include the ability to build a bigger station, as well as positioning firefighters closer to high-density areas
With more women than ever joining departments, open dorms and a lack of bathrooms make for a difficult work environment
Officials are taking steps to clean up its firehouses, one week after Mayor Marc McGovern said he found the conditions to be “extremely disturbing”
The facility is “certainly the finest fire station we have in the city of Mobile,” Mayor Sandy Stimpson said
Listen to firefighters and other stakeholders to evaluate what’s needed when planning for a new facility
To gain support for a new fire station, fire chiefs must understand and address their community’s needs