Not unlike students returning to school this month for the first day of class, Orange County Fire Authority and Buena Park firefighters returned to school Monday, Aug. 14. Sort of.
More than seven months after a fire burned down the city’s 50-year-old Station 61, crews displaced by the blaze moved into Walter Knott Elementary, a Centralia School District site turned temporary fire station.
About 40 fire personnel will work out of Walter Knott, which closed as a school in 2010, but has since reopened as an education center. On Monday, OCFA Fire Capt. Alan Wilkes and Battalion Chief Kelly Zimmerman led Buena Park city leaders and Centralia officials on a tour of the grounds.