The city of Vancouver awarded a $7.13 million contract at Monday’s council meeting, marking the next major step toward construction of the city’s Fire Station 11 facility.
The future Fire Station 11 will be just outside city limits, in a location serviced by the Vancouver Fire Department in partnership with Clark County’s Fire District 5.
Residents in the area currently deal with some of the slowest response times to emergency calls in all of the VFD’s coverage area — fewer than half of all calls to the region are answered within 7 minutes and 59 seconds, which is the department’s target.
“That hotspot is right where the future Station 11 is going to go,” Vancouver Fire Chief Brennan Blue told the city council, referring to a heat map indicating the department’s response times. “We’re excited to have Station 11 added to the mix here.”
The contract was awarded to Portland-based company Kirby Nagelhout Construction via unanimous council vote.