NOTE: This Fire House is the smallest of all Salina Fire Houses. The first floor is Day room and kitchen. The Basement is the bunk room and lock room. There is a large open 1960's style stair case in the lobby. The Reserve Medic and Reserve Rescue bays are very small and short.
Fire House 1 relocated late 1970's second edition side bays 1980's expanded office addition 2000's. This fire house used to have a Mansard roof and look more like a house.
Fire House 2 was opened on the Frontage Road of South US 71 in the 1960's. Since the Frontage Road was one way and access to the Highway was limited the fire house was relocated.
When Fire House 1 moved in the late 1970's it was later found they needed the Fire House. It was reopened in 1981 as Fire House 3. It was a single bay single story store front in the downtown and had housed the department since being volunteer. The quarters were very tight so the fire house was relocated to the north side of the city.
One paid PSO-Driver staffs Engine 131. The other PSO's meet the Engine at the scene in their patrol cars.
Formally Gardner Fire Department prior to 1986. They switched from RED to lime-green when the Public Safety Concept was adopted. The city is currently looking to reform the fire department separate of the police and disband the public safety concept. This is the only Public Safety agency remaining in the State of Kansas and Kansas City Metro.
Gardner, Kansas Department of Public Safety (Johnson County SW corner)
Safety Center Two (Designed with the bays hidden)
built 2007
Houses Engine 132, Truck 132, Reserve Engine 1322
One paid PSO-Driver staffs Engine 132. The other PSO's meet the Engine at the scene in their patrol cars. They have a special group called the Bronto Team that can drive the 114ft E\-One/ Bronto Sky Lift. It consist of off duty PSO's and a small volunteer firefighter force.
Formally Gardner Fire Department prior to 1986. They switched from RED to lime-green when the Public Safety Concept was adopted. The city is currently looking to reform the fire department separate of the police and disband the public safety concept. This is the only Public Safety agency remaining in the State of Kansas and Kansas City Metro.
NOTE: This is the only one I have ever seen. This is a building mounted 3M Optic-Com strobe. It was used to change the traffic lights on the corner in front of the fire house. This was due to the fact the corner was blind when the rigs pulled out.
NOTE: The two main machines respond out of the rear since the doors are wider and there is no hump in the street to bottom out on. The Hose Wagon Engine 12 responds to all fires. #403 the Brush Buggy responds out of the repair bay next to the hose tower.
Built: 1975ish only used for five years about 1979ish.
NOTE: Even before the fire house was built the City argued the need. They built and opened the fire house and only used it for five years before closing it. The building has since been sold. Amazing the tax dollars wasted and the danger the city placed its citizens in. The response time for Fire House 1 is well over five minutes to the west side of Coffeville.
Very unique fire house all prefab concrete. Originally built with roof top parking and two fire poles.
AFD is fully career and claims to be the first fully career fire department established in the state of Kansas. They operate One Engine 2 and Cross-Staff between the Truck 1 and the second Engine 4.
One remaining Fire pole from the bunk room removed from original fire house across the street. All living quarters are on the first floor. The second floor houses a locker room, and bunk-room. One pole was removed from a second Ambulance bunk-room when the EMS moved from the fire department.
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