By Alan M. Petrillo
Queen Creek (AZ) Fire and Medical Department has opened two new fire stations — Station 2 and Station 5 — both designed by Perlman Architects of Arizona Inc.
Vance Gray, Queen Creek’s chief, says that several years ago the department had identified a prototype station to serve the community’s needs. “We determined by working with Perlman Architects of Arizona that a just-over 13,000 square-foot building, with three apparatus bays, and 10 dorm rooms is the model and prototype fire station that will satisfy Queen Creek well into the future,” Gray points out.
Queen Creek (AZ) Fire and Medical Department Station 2 sits in an established part of the town that is agricultural-based, so the station’s exterior was designed by Perlman Architects of Arizona to reflect the neighborhood.
Gray says the department used the prototype layout to construct Fire Station 1 in 2017 in the town’s downtown, but added a Battalion Chief’s quarters to the station. Also in 2017, the department opened Station 3, a neighborhood station that slimmed down the prototype to a two-bay station. Station 4 was completed in December of 2020, followed by Stations 2 and 5 this year, all three of them to the model prototype, he notes.
Queen Creek Station 2 has three double-deep, drive-through apparatus bays.
Ken Powers, principal at Perlman Architects of Arizona, says that Queen Creek’s Stations 2 and 5 “have identical floor plans that follow the prototype, but are