For the past six years, the north end of the Silver City (SD) Volunteer Fire District has been served out of a leased pole barn barely large enough to house one fire engine, RapidCityJournal.com reported. Thanks to a $500,000 donation awarded by the Pennington County Commission last Tuesday, it’s getting a new home.

The donation, part of a $2 million budget request made by the Pennington County Fire Administration last summer, will allow Silver City’s Station No. 2 in Merritt to move out of a situation that served a temporary need, but was never intended for long-term use, the report said.

The request included $500,000 for volunteer fire departments in Quinn, Scenic and Wasta, in addition to Silver City. Each of the four stations in need of replacement suffered from similar issues, the budget request stated. Among the inadequacies were rotting foundations, lack of space, cracked floors and vermin infestation, often hindering the departments’ ability to respond to fires and medical emergencies, the report said.

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By Alan M. Petrillo

Loveland (CO) Fire Rescue Authority needed to add a fire station to cover population growth on the east side of its district in order to reduce response times into that area. Loveland turned to BWG Architects to design its new Station 10, since BWG had previously designed and built Stations 2 and 7, and put an addition on Station 6.

“Firefighter health and safety, and response efficiency are the two main components that we built Station 10 around,” says Greg Ward, Loveland’s division chief. “Station 10 has three double-deep, drive-through apparatus bays, with a public area on one side and the firefighter living quarters on the other.”

Ward notes that Loveland is concerned about keeping particulates and carcinogens out of the living areas of its fire stations, so before it went to design on Station 10, Loveland crews toured fire stations around Colorado and in the Denver metropolitan area to see how other fire departments were handling decon in their stations.

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