Long Island MacArthur Airport unveiled Monday a $13.5 million firehouse designed to improve rescue and medical response to accidents on the airfield.
The building, largely completed Friday, will serve as a staging area during emergencies at the Ronkonkoma airport and replaces a facility built in the 1940s.
The 21,000-square-foot facility is more than triple the size of the old 6,000-square-foot firehouse and will house new fire and rescue vehicles and updated equipment, officials said. Chief Airport Fire Safety Officer Albert Cinotti said he was “overwhelmed” by the new building, saying that the department with 21 full-time employees has “outgrown the old facility.”
“We look forward to providing even better service than we provide now,” he said, noting “it was nearly impossible to keep everyone in the [old] building at one time.”