Normal's new headquarters fire station on Main Street is almost ready, but Chief Mick Humer is in no rush. "We're being pretty particular, because once you let it go, you can't get the same fixes," he said Monday. "It needs to be just right."
Humer toured most of the 30,000-square-foot, two-story station, including a training room that can hold 100, a state-of-the-art weight room, a rooftop area overlooking Main Street to the south and a full industrial kitchen.
Assistant Fire Chief Doug Barnett even took a ride down the pole — the first in Bloomington-Normal since the old Bloomington central fire station on Front Street closed in the mid-1970s, he said. That space is now Epiphany Farms.