The master building plans for a third fire station for the city of Sidney are officially taking shape.
Architects were in town this week to consult with members of the Sidney Fire Department (SFD) about their likes and dislikes to help inform the design of the future facility to be built at 2401 Wapakoneta Ave.
“It’s exciting. The whole process is exciting,” Fire Chief Brad Jones said on Tuesday afternoon. “Just the opportunity to increase our chance to serve our customers, reduce response time across the board, have redundancy in responses, distribute the call volume over our personnel.”
During the first three days of the week, architects conducted focus group meetings with all three fire crews and the instructor core to learn what they do and do not like about their current facilities and how instructors train for creating a suitable training center.
Last summer Jones revealed the department’s goal of creating a third fire station and a tactical village and public safety training center in the future on the 12.5 acres of land the city of Sidney purchased in 2017 where SFD station No. 3 will be built.