By Alan M. Petrillo

Purchase (NY) Fire Department was operating out of a fire house built in 1937 when the area was mostly rural, populated by farms and large estates. That station had a two-bay addition put on in 1968 with 10-foot-high door openings, and in 1998 the station’s flat roof was removed and a second floor was added. But as fire apparatus got larger, space was at a premium in the two apparatus bays, and the department knew it needed an addition to the station to solve the problems of space.

“In the apparatus bays, we couldn’t get into one of our apparatus on the officer’s side because it was so close to the wall,” says Bob Makowski, Purchase fire district secretary and past chief. “And there was only two inches of clearance between the top of the aerial ladder’s light bar and the door opening. Also, at the time, we found it was necessary to have five firefighters bunking in the station, and we had them sleeping in storage rooms and half of the day room.”

Purchase Fire Department covers 10 square miles with 50 volunteer firefighters from a single fire station, Makowski points out. “The area has grown significantly,” he says. “In our district we have PepsiCo’s world headquarters, Maste

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