Last year, San Juan County volunteer firefighters in the Cedar Point area near Aztec responded to about 412 calls. Now a new Cedar Point fire station will help firefighters better balance the load.
Now a new Cedar Point fire station will help firefighters better balance the load. The fire station will also provide assistance to the Blanco and Navajo Dam areas, where the county was forced to merge stations last year because of a lack of volunteer firefighters.
The new station became operational earlier this month, and the firefighters based there had already responded to eight calls before Tuesday's ceremony, according to San Juan County Fire Chief Craig Daugherty.
The station cost about $1.1 million and was paid for from a $7.1 million bond the County Commission approved in 2015 for new stations, replacing old engines and recruiting more firefighters. The bond was also used to renovate the Valley Fire Department Station 1 in Kirtland.