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Permalink Reply by Vic Silverfish on April 6, 2010 at 11:39pm

My first station built a beautiful "Taj Mahal" to house our apparatus and about 20 live-in firefighters/college students. The one complaint I had was the main "hallway" area had a beautiful 25-foot ceiling with a pass-through to the second floor. This meant when the radio went off, the echo made it completely incomprehensible.

so: Avoid huge open spaces with "hard" walls. This is unavoidable in the engine bay, but carpet and curtains should be strategically placed to keep the noise level down!

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Permalink Reply by ashfire on April 7, 2010 at 8:20am

I would like to see my fire company build a new three bay apparatus room with added storage structure to beable to house the units because we are now parking a pumper unused outside because that space is being used by a batt chief for his SUV.
We built a two bay drive through years ago which was good but things kept getting added like PT equipment and washers and dryers and repair area and lockers so movment is around the room is a problem.
What should be done is build the new addition take the old apparatus room and use it for new living area for a new bunkroom, offices, TV room and use the old bunkroom for lockers and PT equipment turn old offices into turnout gear lockers. The back locker room could be used for the washer and dryers.

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Permalink Reply by Matthew Powers on April 7, 2010 at 9:05am

Our station is built on a small piece of ground because we need access to the fire pond. Because of this space is at a premium and it is a tight squeeze to get around the first truck from the bunker room. It was probably fine decades ago when they built it, but now with new apparatus, it is hard to move around anywhere.

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