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.
The Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit location has things the old station lacked — a restroom, an office and two bays instead of one for fire engines and equipment
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
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