Firehouse Stations eNL - Sep 20th, 2022
 
 
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September 20, 2022

One of the highlights of Firehouse Expo 2022, which kicks off next week, is the "Eight Design Ideas for Fire Stations in 2023 and Beyond" roundtable discussion on Wednesday, Sept. 28. Join Eric Pros, Joe Weithman, Timothy Wiley and our own Janet Wilmoth for this informative discussion.

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FEATURES
Janet Wilmoth details how where there’s a need to improve service and response time to the community, the fire service is working to find financially responsible ways.
Matthew Haight says it's the people and traditions that separate an exceptional firehouse from a mediocre firehouse.
David Robinson provides food for thought on proper specifications for furniture and alerting systems in station sleep rooms and bunk rooms.
Candice Wong provides the thinking that must be applied to choosing materials for a firehouse's various floors and walls.
IN QUARTERS
This satellite station in North Seaford, DE, is a primary training station with a high call volume. The placement of the station was determined using GIS data future forecasting to maximize paramedic coverage.
Located on a foliage-dense site that’s within a lakefront community in New Braunfels, the footprint of Firehouse No. 54 was minimized to reduce its effect on the existing environment.
Fire Station No. 2's training center’s seven-story burn building is equipped with six burn rooms, a state-of-the-art smoke system and temperature control alarms, for safety.
The Harris County, Katy, TX, ESD 48 Fire Station No. 1 features apparatus bays that are equipped with a source-capture exhaust removal system, which is part of a comprehensive and NFPA-compliant reduction design.
STATION NEWS
A dozen firefighters are expected to lose their job at the Kennedy Space Center station that hasn't responded to a call in five years.
Officials say renovations to Troy Fire Station 6 will increase 45 percent since basement concrete floors were deteriorating and the steel supports are corroded.
Mount Dora officials are considering moving another city department into the building.