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.
Fire Chief Jason Culberson said the city has discussed expanding Fire Station One for 30 years, and encouraged council members to act quickly
The fire district’s board voted 2-1 to approve the $95,000 project
It will add two larger bays and allow the department to have a total of seven to eight pieces of apparatus under roof
The station’s namesake, Dennis Cox, served as a volunteer firefighter for 18 years; he suffered a traumatic brain injury on the job
The nearly 400 requests issued was due to a defect, conflict, inconsistency or omission in contract documents
Fire stations are needed to protect unincorporated areas of the parish
The two are trying to halt $189,000 to remodel and add on to the fire station
County government is contributing $30,000 for the $1.4 million station to replace the one built in 1963
Starting a fire department from scratch is great when money is no object; when resources are scarce, you improvise
A recent humanitarian-aid trip to build a fire department from scratch shows what a community can accomplish
The fire department was seeking to build a new, expanded fire station, and permission from voters to sell two fire district lots to keep the cost at or under $17.7 million