Adelita Perez, who lives a few streets from Fire Station 3 on Griffin Street, told Danville aldermen that she could not get her three kids — an infant daughter, a son with asthma and her physically disabled teenage daughter — out of her house during a fire without help.
"I would need the fire department to get them out," Perez said during a packed city council meeting Tuesday night. She was one of about 10 people who addressed aldermen about the proposed closure of the station.
She pleaded with Danville aldermen to vote against the closure — stressing the importance of a quick response in an emergency and the high-volume of railroad traffic on routes to her house from other stations in the city — but they approved it, largely as a cost-saving measure.