A new Somerville fire station will be located on the corner of Middlesex Avenue and Foley Street in Assembly Row, though ground has not yet been broken for it, city officials tell FA. It will be a 10,000-square-foot, ground-level firehouse in a new development, the city says on its website.
The fire station will include three apparatus bays with decontamination facilities for both the city’s professional force as well as an Auxiliary Firefighter Unit, and associated locker rooms, fitness room, individual bunk rooms, meeting space, and a kitchen. The firehouse (fossil-fuel-free) has environmentally sustainable features including:
- Air-source heat pumps
- Energy recovery unit
- Red-list-free materials
The fire station will have glass bays facing Middlesex Avenue, which aim to liven the street front and provide critical life-safety city services to the community. The firehouse will serve as a welcoming presence at a key entry road into the neighborhood.
The working team will have bunk rooms and social spaces to fit their needs. Bedding, desking, locker storage, and meeting space will benefit this professional group through use of space that is efficient, durable, and high-performance. The day-to-day life of both professional and volunteer firefighters, and the nature of their transient occupancy within the station, was researched through working sessions with users in order to create a unique experience that both livens and keeps the community safe.
See renderings below of the planned facility:
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A Putnam County EMS Ambulance was involved in an accident with another vehicle Monday evening.
The crash happened on Interstate 40 in Roane County around 6:15 p.m., the service wrote in a brief Facebook post.
Preliminary reports indicate the ambulance crew and others involved in the crash suffered non-life threatening injuries and were transported to hospitals around Knoxville.
The ambulance was not carrying a patient at the time of the crash.
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VIDEO: Six inmate firefighters were injured when a flash fire occurred in the back of their crew vehicle while working in the Castaic area Tuesday morning.
The incident was reported about 11 a.m. near the Golden State Highway and Templin Highway, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
“A flash fire occurred in the back of an inmate camp crew vehicle,” Fire Department officials said in a tweet hours after the incident.
- PUB DATE: 6/8/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTLA-TV CW 5 Los Angeles
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