{"id":14201,"date":"2024-03-20T11:13:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T15:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=14201"},"modified":"2024-03-20T13:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T17:26:45","slug":"new-fire-station-in-decaturs-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/new-fire-station-in-decaturs-future\/","title":{"rendered":"New fire station in Decatur’s future?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decatur’s fire station has been situated on Seventh St., between Jefferson and Adams streets, for some 92 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s served its community quite well and with distinction over all those years. But it seems the time is approaching when it will be saying goodbye to all it has served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decatur’s board of works and safety, at its Tuesday meeting, approved a request by Fire Chief Jeff Sheets for a feasibility study to find a place for a new, more modern station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheets said the feasibility study is needed \u201cto see in the future what can be done.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe are simply out of room. We’ve tried to keep it up the best we can, but…\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new station is hardly just around the proverbial corner, but the process needs to be started, Sheets told the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newer, larger fire trucks are stuffed into the building and the living quarters are cramped. In early 2022, the board of works approved an expenditure of $15,497 to upgrade the heating system in the residential area, which had had uneven heating for something like 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building on is no longer possible. The station was constructed in 1932, a second phase was built on in the 1960s, and a third phase was added in the 1980s, Sheet explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A railroad track and power lines have the station landlocked, it was noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheets has a feasibility study lined up for $26,500 and has enough funds in his budget to cover it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor Dan Rickord said officials visited three other cities which are building a new station or are planning to do so, and each began with a feasibility study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The board gave its approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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