Located at 4150 Town Center Blvd., just off Highway 41 and Tesoro Viejo Blvd. via the development’s roundabout, it’s the first new fire station to be built in Madera County in eight years.  

The 4,600-square-foot-fire station, which also includes a Madera County Sheriff substation, serves the Tesoro Viejo community, as well as surrounding southeastern Madera County.

The fire station, staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, has two apparatus bays and three dorm bedrooms to house one fire company.

The proposed project is to improve the living headquarters for firefighters and provide the necessary training or resources for the department.  

"We're only one of few here in the state of Nevada that does a full-time volunteer service from ambulance services to fire to home inspections," said Hugill.

According to the Twin Falls Community Foundation's website, there is a donor that is willing to help fund the station.

“It was a joyous occasion,” co-founder Laura Mallery-Sayre said. “We have been waiting for something like this for forever. It is the first truck of its kind in Hawaii. We are lucky to have it here on our island.”  

The truck is an off-road vehicle designed to reach areas where brush fires start, like the ones that plagued the Kohala district in recent years.

The truck in question is the 1994 Simon Duplex LTI ladder truck apparatus that was purchased from Westerly for $25,750 almost exactly two months ago in May.  

At the time of its purchase by Warwick, the truck had just 18,811 miles on it despite being 25 years old, and was heralded by city councilmen and Mayor Joseph Solomon (who helped barter the negotiation for the truck) as a savvy, cost-effective stop-gap measure to become the replacement for Ladder 1 – a 1998 truck stationed at the department’s headquarters in Apponaug – which faced upwards of $125,000 in repairs to get back onto the road.

A similar ladder truck purchased new would have cost the city between $850,000 and $1 million – as was discussed at the time of the truck’s purchase.