Wednesday, February 8, 2012
2010 Decade Forecast: Sighs of the Times
Compiled by Janet Wilmoth (janet@firechief.com)
FIRE CHIEF asked leading experts to predict how the next decade will unfold for American fire and emergency services. The responses were as unique as the respondents, but one thing is clear: there will be no shortage of challenges....
2010 Decade Forecast: Emerging Economy
By Rob Brown, Chief, Stafford County (Va.) Fire Department
While the economy gave us the best of times and the worst of times over the past decade, one truth remained constant — the American fire service is every community's all-hazards solution....
Riverside Breaks Ground on La Quinta Station
The $6.8 million project incorporates a 7,200-square-foot fire station and improvements to the neighboring City Corporate Yard, where public-works equipment is parked....
Franklin Street Station Honors Worcester 6
By Janet Wilmoth
The Worcester (Mass.) Fire Department’s Franklin Street Station is located on the site of the Cold Storage Warehouse where six Worcester firefighters died on Dec. 3, 1999. The previous building’s owner donated the land....
Olympia Breaks Ground on Projected LEED Silver Station
The station will be 13,300 square feet and include 24-hour accommodations for six firefighters who staff two emergency vehicles. ...
Attract, Train and Retain
By Janet WIlmoth
During the design process for the new fire station in Middleton, Wis., Chief Aaron Harris was determined to “attract, train and retain” professional volunteer firefighters. And Station No. 1 has done just that....
Fit Factor
By John Metzger
Fitness equipment for fire stations should be chosen for function, not firefighter aesthetics....
Ruidoso Main Fire Station and EOC
The new fire station updates the department's functionality, replacing crude living quarters and inadequately sized apparatus bay doors, and improving the department's ability to respond to an increased demand on its services....
Rebuilding After Disaster
By Jay Chase and Nick Marshall
After losing all 10 of its fire stations to Hurricane Katrina, this Louisiana parish had to cut through red tape before it could break ground....
Bloomfield Fire Department Headquarters
The project includes renovation and expansion of/to an existing fire station to better house and support the operations, equipment, and personnel of the fire department, and to compliment the context, infrastructure, and security...
The Best Defense
By William F. Jenaway
How to protect your department's facilities from vandalism and fire....
Albuquerque Fire Stations No. 5 and No. 21
These two facilities represent the culmination of continuous experience gained through three decades of evolution and development....
Room & Board
The latest options in design, furnishings, equipment and services....
Bosque Farms Municipal Complex
The project includes renovation and expansion of/to an existing fire station to better house and support the operations, equipment, and personnel of the fire department, and to compliment the context, infrastructure, and security...
Plan, Then Plan More
By Janet Wilmoth (janet@firechief.com)
Architect Don May talks about his firm's two Fire Station Design Awards and offers guidance to chiefs new to the design process....
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