Plans to build a $4 million fire station on Aurora's west side won approval Tuesday from the city council. The new facility will replace a station that was built in 1957. Assistant Chief of Support Services Donald Davids said Station 7, on Kenilworth Avenue in Lincoln Park, will remain fully operational while the new, 10,000-square-foot station is built about 15 feet away.

Firefighters at Jackson Hole Fire/EMS Station 3 affectionately call the Hoback fire station "tiny town" because they can barely fit people and equipment inside the 40-by-60-foot building at the same time.