Almost two decades in the making, the new Bay Point Fire Station 86 is now open for business just five minutes from the old station and just north of Highway 4 for easy access to the region.
The station, which broke ground in April of 2021 and opened last week at 10 Goble Drive, replaces the nearly 75-year-old station a mile to the west on Willow Pass Road in Bay Point.
“What an incredible fire station this is,” Contra Costa Fire Protection District Chief Lewis T. Broschard said at Friday’s opening ceremony. “It’s an amazing piece of architecture and an amazing facility. It’s going to serve us for a really long time.”
At 10,800 square feet, the new single-story structure has 5,100 square feet for living areas and 5,700 square feet for the apparatus bays, more than double the size of the old facility.