PHOTOS: Local and state dignitaries joined residents of the city of Oconto Falls on Aug. 7 to dedicate the new fire station built with the help of a $7 million federal grant.
Visitors got a tour of the facility before gathering in the large training room, an official “uncoupling” of a fire hose served as a ribbon-cutting, and the food truck from Los Magueyes provided lunch for the crowd.
Chief Tim Magnin said a 2012 evaluation of the city’s firefighting operations identified the need for a newer, larger fire station, but budget constraints kept it from happening until the city obtained the Neighborhood Investment Grant through the federal American Rescue Plan Act administered by the state Department of Administration.
Magnin credited state Rep. Jeff Mursau, R-Crivitz, for working behind the scenes in Madison to push grant applications for Oconto Falls and Peshtigo over the top.