FIRE STATION TO REPLACE AGED BUILDING.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer Taking shovels in hand, city and county officials celebrated Friday the start of construction on a $1.7 million fire station, the fourth to be built in Lancaster. Officials turned soil at Elm and Kettering streets, where a 10,500-square-foot facility will replace the cramped quarters of Fire Station 33 six blocks away. ``This will enable us to double our size,'' said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Fire Chief P. Michael Freeman Michael Roy Freeman (born 9 December 1960, London, England) is a New Zealand chess player. He emigrated to New Zealand in September 1967. He was a pupil at Otago Boys High School, Dunedin from 1974 to 1978. . ``It will serve as an anchor point Anchor Point may refer to:
The Antelope Valley .'' Station 33 was built in 1966 as the battalion headquarters. The 5,600-square-foot brick building - which cost $122,000 to build - replaced a 2,000-square-foot station built in 1938. Three stations have been built in Lancaster since 1994: Station 134 near 25th Street West and Avenue K-8, Station 135 at 20th Street East and Avenue K-4, and Station 129 at Avenue M and 6th Street West. Officials said that the latest fire station will be identical to Fire Station 129, where a garage facility, training center, training tower and a helicopter pad are located. The new station will be capable of housing about 10 firefighters and will provide interior and exterior storage, an auxiliary generator, above-ground fuel tank, and automatic fire sprinkler system. ``This is a good investment of tax dollars,'' Freeman said. ``This station will last us 50 years easily. But we can easily exceed that.'' The new station will also house a firefighter Explorer program
The Explorer program was the United States's first successful attempt to launch an artificial satellite. and an at-risk youth program that will offer youths an alternative to gangs and gives them big brother-type figures to guide them. Also planned at the new station will be one of four new pieces of firefighting equipment recently purchased by the city of Lancaster The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. Its main town is Lancaster, from which it obtained its city status. Other towns in the district include Morecambe, Heysham, Slyne, and Carnforth. , including a 1999 KME KME Knowledge Management Environment KME Kentucky Mining Engineering KME Kia Motors Europe KME Key Mouse Electronic Tiller Quint Multi-Purpose vehicle valued at $535,000. ``This will give us the much needed room for the additional equipment we recently purchased,'' said Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
Other pieces of equipment are three 1999 KME Triple Combination Pumpers, which will be housed at Fire Station 130, Fire Station 117 and Fire Station 129. Each are valued at $260,000. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts makes good use of a shovel Friday during a county fire station groundbreaking. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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