Sanford’s Central Fire Station is beginning to show its age, officials say, and the 60-year-old Main Street facility is too cramped, according to a report in spectrumlocalnews.com.

Officials have for years debated the best way to replace the station, one of three managed by the Sanford Fire Department, and now with the purchase of a property at 1280 Main St., the vision becomes a smidge clearer, the report says.

It’s the first step in a consolidation plan to replace all three fire stations, with the other two in South Sanford and Springvale. City officials say Sanford is using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act to avoid a bond to pay for the acquisition.

The location for the second new station is still being debated.

An ambulance and a car were involved collided in New Castle, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, sending ambulance patient and the car’s driver to the hospital, WTAE reports.

The crash happened at East Washington Street and Butler Avenue.

The paramedics in the ambulance were evaluated at the scene. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

The Montgomery Volunteer Fire Department recently took delivery of Tanker 6.

The department plans to train on the fire truck and put it into service soon.

By Alan M. Petrillo

Conduit Architecture + Design has been involved with the design and construction of several fire stations for the city of McKinney (TX), with its most recent effort coming with the completion of Fire Station No. 11 at 6260 Rundell Way in McKinney, an area that’s seen rapid growth and is densely populated with mixed single- and multi-family housing, duplexes, apartment complexes, and some commercial structures.

Danny Kistner, McKinney Fire Department’s chief, says the city has a population of 200,000 in 69 square miles, but when the department’s extra-territorial jurisdiction is taken into account, that coverage area balloons to 113 square miles. “Our 11 stations are single-apparatus houses, with seven of them having a medical unit,” Kistner says. “We run on the quint concept and have half of our stations populated with engines, and the rest with 100-foot aerial quints. We expect to take delivery of an aerial platform soon, and in the coming years intend on having a tractor drawn aerial (TDA) in Station 11.”

Eric Ciskowski, principal at Conduit, points out that Conduit designed and built Stations 9 and 10 for McKinney, and got the contract to handle Station 11 in mid-2019. “Station 11 is a single-story fire station with three bays that are double-deep, drive through, with MagneGrip vehicle emission systems and positive pressure between the living areas and the bays,” Ciskowski says. “While Stations 9 and 10 were in residential neighborhoods and required designs to complement those areas, Station 11 is in a more urban area, with apartment buildings, and the course where the Byron Nelson golf tournament is held nearby, so they wanted a taller station with a more urban feel.”

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Posted: Mar 18, 2022

Photo of the Day: March 18, 2022

Rosenbauer—Maplewood (MO) Fire Department pumper. Commander 7818 cab and chassis; Cummins L9 450-hp engine; Waterous S100 1,500-gpm rear-mount pump; ProPoly 500-gallon polypropylene water tank; Rosenbauer Green Star 7.9-kW generator; TFT Monsoon 1,250-gpm monitor; independent front suspension; Power Arc warning lights. Dealer: Brian Franz, Sentinel Emergency Solutions, St. Louis, MO.

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