“We just want to express our desire to do it as cheaply and as cost efficient for the public as we can.”
Joe Lenderman of Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue, along with architect Keith Driscoll of Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, provided a brief presentation to the Gloucester Board of Supervisors last Thursday in the T.C. Walker Education Center auditorium to discuss the construction of the new GVFRS Station One.
The current size of the facility is 12,000 square feet, but the station needs to expand to 25,000 square feet. The station’s current limitations include undersized apparatus bays, no contamination zone separation between living quarters and the apparatus bays, minimal accessibility compliance, and finite accommodations for staff who are there 24 hours a day.
“As the county gets more populated, the department is going to be transitioning more from a respond-from-home model to something that is staffed 24/7,” said Driscoll. “And the facilities in the station don’t...