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Crockery Township Fire Department improvements help better serve area residents

Becky Vargo, Grand Haven Tribune, Mich.

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Feb. 3—NUNICA — Changes made over the past year at the Crockery Township Fire Department are helping firefighters more efficiently serve area residents, according to Chief John Kriger.

The improvements include a 90-by-50-foot addition to the station, which was originally built at the corner of Cleveland Street and 112th Avenue in 2003.

This allowed the department to house all of its equipment in one building.

Kriger said the addition was put in use when it was completed almost a year ago, with plans to show it off to the public during the Fire Prevention Week open in house in October 2020. But that did not happen because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The just over $600,000 project included adding four bays to the fire station, demolishing the old building and repaving the entire parking lot, according to Township Treasurer Judy VanBemelen.

The parking lot needed to be done many years ago, she said.

Part of the project was to add a fire suppression system to the entire building, something that was required because of the additional square footage, Kriger said.

Funds for the project came primarily out of the combined operations and capital expenditures millage approved by the residents in 2014.

Kriger said that the old building, constructed around 1972 to house township offices, the township library and the fire department, had too many issues that needed repairing for it to continue to be used by the fire department or the township.

The township moved its offices and library to the former Nunica School in the mid-1980s and the older building was used entirely by the fire department.

“The old building was starting to fall apart,” Kriger said. “We kept it maintained as much as possible, but it was getting hard to maintain without spending lots of money.”

“Firefighters had to come in here to get their equipment,” Kriger said pointing to one side of the building. “Then they had to run over there and manually open the garage doors to get the tr

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