During last week's Common Council meeting, the La Crosse City Council approved for the La Crosse Fire Department to conduct a feasibility study on adding a new fire station.
Currently the department has four stations throughout the city.
"They were built to the time when the fire service was just different. The trucks were a lot smaller so our apparatus are barely fitting in the bays. We don't have a lot of room to work with down on the apparatus floors, as well as back when these stations were built there weren't co-ed living arrangements, or working arrangements. In the fire service there were no females," said La Crosse Fire Chief Ken Gilliam.
For the potential new station, the department says they want it to be on La Crosse's southside.
Gilliam says the department is looking at the southside because that is where the community is continuing to grow.