Pushback from Belle Haven residents forced Menlo Park’s fire district to drop a plan to seize two residential properties to expand its station. About 50 residents packed Tuesday night’s meeting of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District, held inside a small classroom at its 300 Middlefield Road fire station. They opposed the fire station expansion plan and praised the family at 351 Terminal that would have been displaced as pillars of the community. They spoke of how the Hoermanns launched a Fourth of July block party on Terminal and regularly welcome neighbors into their home like extended family.