Grand Rapids is looking to construct a new, $25 million fire station to replace the nearly 100-year-old one currently in use on South Division Avenue, MLive.com reported.

The new Fire Station No. 10 will be located at 1823 South Division Avenue – just two blocks south of the current one – and feature a training center, vehicle storage, bunks and social rooms, an emergency operations center and more, the report said.

Building age is showing and firefighters are also dealing with a cramped vehicle bay not suited for larger, modern fire trucks and other apparatuses, the report said.

A fire official said there’s only about a two-inch gap between the vehicles and the sides of the bay doors when they pull into the vehicle bay, and that the vehicles can’t be walked around completely while parked in the bay because of how cramped it is.

Police arrested a man in Woodbridge on Wednesday after officers said he tried to stab a police dog and damaged a fire truck with a knife, Patch.com reported.

Authorities said additional charges may be pending after 33 vehicles had tires slashed or other damage, the report said.

One officer reported minor injuries, and the suspect received treatment at an area hospital for minor injuries, according to the report.

Around 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, officers responded to the commuter parking lot on Gemini Way to investigate damage to vehicles, the report said. Authorities said an unknown man slashed tires on vehicles in the lot before leaving the area.

Later that evening, officers learned of an unconscious man in the 14700 block of Darbydale Avenue. Rescue personnel said the man used a knife to damage one of their vehicles when they arrived on the scene, according to the police report.

When officers arrived, the man was still armed with a knife, the police department said. The officers tried to detain the man, but he refused to cooperate, according to authorities.

During a struggle, the man tried to stab a police K-9 with the knife, according to the police report. He was eventually taken into custody.

A community effort is underway in western Massachusetts to help the Hadley Fire Department grow its emergency response unit, WesternMassNews.com reported Wednesday.

The first step is getting a better ambulance, which it now has, thanks to community support, the report said.

A fire official said that whenever it received multiple calls at the same time, where the primary ambulance is out taking care of a call, the department then had to ask for mutual aid from Northampton, Amherst, South Hadley and South Deerfield.

But now Hadley has its own backup thanks to the Northampton Fire Department, which sold the truck to Hadley for about $20,000, according to the report. The backup truck is expected to be in action within the next couple of months, the report said.

York (NE) has started the process toward building a new fire station, YorkNewsTimes.com reported Wednesday.

As part of the budget, city officials agreed to take $500,000 from the city’s reserves as the start of a “savings account” toward this large project, the report said.

City officials will start touring fire departments in other communities similar to York, where they too have a paid staff as well as volunteers. Some communities have built new stations in the past few years and those will be reviewed as a starting point when planning for the future, according to the report.

The current station was built in 1969. In April of 1968, a bond issue passed and a new fire/police complex was built for $188,000 at the corner of Eighth Street and Grant Avenue, the report said.