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.
Video: N.C. FD orders all-electric fire truck to be housed at city’s first all-electric fire station
The Charlotte Fire Department’s Vector fire truck, manufactured by Spartan Emergency Response, is expected to be the first all-electric apparatus operating in the Southeast
The Bucket Brigade sculpture will sit on the lawn of the new Fire Station No. 4
The area had a fire station until it was removed in 1998; talk of replacing it never materialized — a fire department report says response times cannot be met without that station
One mayor said allowing the department to redevelop its property would help the agency keep response times low as the surrounding population increases
The local businessman is paying for and handling the arrangements to expand the fire station to accommodate a new fire truck
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