There’s more elbow room for the Monarch Fire Protection District to spread its wings, thanks to Missouri American Water Company.
“We’ve donated three acres with a lease of another two acres because they have a training facility out here,” said Debbie Dewey, president of Missouri American Water. “We’ve been renting the land to them since 2001. They wanted to make some more investment to have a closed classroom space and do some other investment and they were wondering how long they could continue to lease the land and we decided it’s the right thing to do to give them the land and they have it to invest in and grow their program.”
Proving that fire and water do go together, Friday afternoon there was a ribbon-cutting and ceremonial handoff of this piece of land, the current training tower facility at 911 John Pellet Court in Chesterfield.