The Loves Park Fire Department has moved into its newest facility, which fire officials say will reduce response times to its busiest areas and eventually lower insurance costs for homeowners and businesses, RockRiverCurrent.com reported.

The city showed off its new Station 1 during an open house Tuesday at the remodeled former body shop at 5180 Rock Valley Parkway. It started using the facility about three weeks ago, the report said.

The new station replaces the city’s original station at 400 Grand Avenue, which was built in 1947 and originally home to City Hall. It will now be used as storage for the city’s Public Works Department, the report said.

The former station no longer made sense for today’s fire equipment, a fire official said. For example, its doors were 10-foot tall, which doesn’t accommodate the 12-foot tall ladder trucks the department now uses, the report said.

PHOTOS: Crews worked all night to put out the hot spots of a massive junkyard fire in the Hunting Park section of Philadelphia. The three-alarm fire broke out around 6 p.m. Tuesday at Sedgley and Erie avenues, sending a black plume of smoke into the sky. Multiple vehicles and tires were ablaze inside the junkyard, officials said.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPVI-TV ABC 6 Philadelphia

VIDEO: Two of the three firefighters critically injured in an apartment gas explosion in Southeast Oak Cliff returned to work on Tuesday. They managed to make the return two days before the one-year anniversary of the explosion. One year ago on Thursday, Cpt. Christopher Gadomski, Ron Hall and Pauline Perez were investigating a gas leak at Highland Hills Apartments in Southeast Oak Cliff.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KDFW-TV FOX 4 Dallas

PHOTOS: Grays Harbor Fire District 1 Station 2 has been temporarily put out of service after $90,000 in lifesaving equipment was stolen Tuesday morning. Police were called at 6 a.m. to the fire station located at 1880 South Bank Road for an overnight burglary. Officials said thieves stole equipment such as defibrillators, jaws of life, radios and more from a tender, fire engine, and an ambulance.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

In addition to battling blazes, Dearborn Heights firefighters are hard at work these days trying to snuff out something that hits very close to home for them – cancer. The department has embraced a “Movember” fundraising campaign that encourages mustache growth to raise awareness of men’s health issues.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Press & Guide - Metered Site