Fire Station No. 7 held a grand opening, reports Roanoke News.

The new fire station spans about 16,000 square feet, about four times as much space as the prior station, and will house 24 staffers. The fire station is better designed to meet modern needs — including housing both male and female firefighters.

The fire department worked to preserve the history of the prior fire station. The new design mirrors the architectural features of the 1922 fire station. An entryway is lined with original brick complete with stone markers denoting the years of major changes to the station. The Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation, which designed a historical placard that will be hung outside the station later this year. 

The new fire station is set to come in just under budget at $7 million. The construction took about 13 months. 

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PHOTO: The Cle Elum Downtown Association is raising money to help businesses impacted after a Saturday fire in the Bull Durham building. The three-alarm blaze severely damaged the historic structure which sits at the corner of Railroad and Oak Avenues. The fund raiser will help the seven businesses effected, all in the medical field in some capacity.
- PUB DATE: 2/24/2021 2:36:28 PM - SOURCE: KPQ-AM 560

A fire truck responding to a house fire in the Trinidad community of Tacarigua blew a tire Tuesday, sending the apparatus in the wall of a church. Six fire officers suffered minor injuries, according to a report published by Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.

According to the report, a fire truck headquartered at the Tunapuna Fire Station, was responding to a reported house fire early Tuesday morning when the tire blew sending the truck into a skid before it crashed into a wall of St. Mary’s Church.

After the crash, another fire truck responded from the San Juan Fire Station, the report said without reporting the extent of the damage to the house.

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Voters in Westmoreland, NH, will be asked to consider appropriating $2.27 million for a new fire station when they head to the polls for the town’s annual meeting next month, according to the Keene Sentinel/Sentinelsource.

The current fire station, built in 1954, is too small and too close to the road to sufficiently accommodate modern fire apparatus and all the equipment necessary to run the department, firefighters told the newspaper.

The new fire station at 6,400 square feet in area, is nearly double the size of the current building and will be located on a new site behind the community’s Town Hall.

Decontamination zones will be incorporated in the new fire station if three fifths of the voters approve the appropriation, according to the newspaper.

Westmoreland currently has six trucks and 23 firefighters, according to the paper.  

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The Jamaica Fire Brigade is slated to get up to 30 new fire pumpers under a $1.9 Billion appropriation to be completed next year, according to a report published by The Gleaner newspaper.

The paper reported the Government of Jamaica is funding the project to upgrade the fire service in the country.

The apparatus will be purchased under the authority of the Acquisition of Fixed Assets Project in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the paper reported.

The fire brigade upgrade project is expected to be completed by March 22, according to the paper.

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