The City of Fort Wayne plans to build a new fire station on Lower Huntington Road to replace the aging station on Bluffton Road. And the Fort Wayne Redevelopment Commission Monday authorized the acquisition of land, reports wane.com.

The property is the former Adams Radio Group, located at 2000 Lower Huntington Rd., and the cost is estimated around $150,000, according to the report. The Bluffton Road facility was built in the 1970s and is too cramped and outdated.

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Station 5 is the second of three stations targeted for replacement; construction on Station 14 will most likely begin this fall, officials say. Station 6 also needs replacing. The cost for Station 14 will be around $5 million, and the facility will measure around 10,000 square feet; its bidding process has begun.

Much of Virginia’s Fairfax County has a decidedly urban feel, but there are still rural pockets where no infrastructure exists to support fire hydrants.

That left firefighters often deploying tankers to make up for the shortage of water when they initially responded to a scene.

A more elegant solution, however, was the installation of dry hydrants – an underground piping system that connects to a local water source, such as a pond, that can feed firefighting operations when a truck hooks up to it to provide the pump.

Master Technician Pete Kosenko and the Fairfax Fire Department recently finished installing four dry hydrants in the county’s Clifton neighborhood. The project took a lot of planning. Water sources had to be identified, private landowners had to agree to participate and funds had to be acquired.

With funding from the Virginia Department of Fire Programs and the Virginia Forestry Department the project got underway back in 2018. The COVID-19 pandemic caused a pause in the action, but the department recently finished the installation of its third dry hydrant, increasing the level of protection to the neighborhood.

Read more about the project here.

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Osceola County recently broke ground on its new Fire Station 45, located near the intersection of W192 and SR 535.

Station 45 amps up the station count to 17, which is the most the county has had serving the community in the unincorporated area since the department’s beginnings in 1989, reports clickorlando.com. It’s also the second of three stations the county has started construction on in 2022.

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“The station will play a key role in providing fire rescue and emergency services to our community. The station is located at 4990 Calypso Cay Way,” a Facebook post reads.