The station will be staffed by five personnel with living quarters above the bay for those individuals. The crews will staff the station 24/7. Charleston Fire Chief Rob Sutler says the fire station is position to protect a large number of homes and lives.
“While we still had a crew dedicated for it, they were over on Lee Street,” Sutler recalled. “If it hadn’t been for the South Charleston Fire Department working with us to help protect the area, we couldn’t have had the level of protection we had while rebuilding the station.”
The new station will also feature an ambulance and EMT service, which hasn’t been there since 2004 when the building was judged structurally deficient in the ambulance bay.