North County Fire and EMS has a new Fire Station 48 which is now open and will provide a better facility for local firefighters.
The new location will be at Airport Boulevard and 43rd Avenue, while the previous was located at 18824 Smokey Point Boulevard.
“The old Fire Station 48 was established in 2008, and we’ve leased the facility since then,” said Dave Kraski, deputy fire chief with North County Fire and EMS. “The plan was not to be there for that long, but we were."
The city of Arlington began planning to construct the new facility when they still managed local fire services.
“The idea has been in the works for years, but we really started aggressively pursuing it a couple of years ago,” said Kraski.
The city of Arlington took out bonds to construct the new facility.