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.
Viroqua Fire Department’s new station, partially funded by a $5.25M grant, has modern safety features, expanded apparatus and training space, sleeping quarters and a public welcome center
Plans for Station No. 9 began in 2012 in an effort to reduce downtown response times and to relocate closer to the interstate
The Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center report reveals several factors that influenced the crew’s decision to stay, including an unheeded warning
FireRescue1 contributors ponder what firefighters will face next, after two years of considerable challenges
A Bloomington annexation proposal may also make it necessary to add two additional locations
U.C. San Diego provided the city a piece of land on campus where a station could improve response times to the university and the surrounding community
Trucks barely fit into the current Canton fire station, which was not designed to include sleeping quarters, despite EMS personnel working overnight shfits
Fire Chief Jason Culberson said the city has discussed expanding Fire Station One for 30 years, and encouraged council members to act quickly
The report classified the Devon Avenue station as in “critical condition” and the Greenwood station as in “poor, nearly critical condition,” with “major work” necessary to keep them operational
The federal funding will be used with proceeds from Oceanside’s Measure X to cover the estimated $18.6 million in construction costs
The legislation requires FEMA to allocate 25% of the grants for career fire and EMS departments, 25% for combination departments and 25% for volunteer departments