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.
Lewiston city council members promised to seek an alternative to the upgrade that was supposed to improve response times and firefighters’ working conditions
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
Building a fire station inside a shopping mall may seem like an outlandish idea, but more than 20 years later it is a fixture in the community
Successful fire station construction or renovation requires careful planning, patience, commitment and buy-in from all involved
The new 10,500-square-foot station will replace the old station that was built in 1913 and moves “when the wind blow