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Navy Vale moved from Vale Road to RT50 when they built the Fair Oaks Combination Fire Station and Police District Station in the 80s. Fire Station 31 was close to 21 before the move and left a big open area that was rapidly growing near RT66 and RT50 along RT50........
dave
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Fairfax had wanted to relocate Navy-Vale to either the developing area of South Reston or the US-50 corridor. The county offered the S. Reston (Foxmill) station the vollies with the provision for a County supplied engine to replace the 1970 ALF, that offer was rejected by the membership. The second offer to move is the current station that is just west of the West Ox intersection between what was a 7-11 and the Exxon station. The old station at 12504 Bennett Rd., is still being used by the County to store athletic equipment. The orginal station was barley inadequate to house the County crew of five. Fairfax did not single units on dispatch untiil later. The old station only A/C(1981)in the very small bunkroom until we breached a hole in the adjoinig dayroom wall and installed a window unit that vented into the washroom. The eating area was behind the wagon on the apparatus floor with a large bug zapper over the table. The restoom facilities consisted of one shower and three "pots" on septic system from 1957 which had difficulry "accepting" the increased staffing for the squad which brought the min. staffing to eight. The squad was placed into service after the County replaced Sqd-15 with a sorely needed truck company. The first due truck priro to trk-15 was Trk-3 with second due handled by Trk-25 and Trk-18 or Trk-13. The squad did not have any roof vents and would only fit into the wash bay of the Bennett Rd. station due to the door height limatations. The Chantilly Police Station (on Penrose Ave.) was an old rambler style house a beat up single wide with similiar restroom facilities.
Navy Vale moved from Vale Road to RT50 when they built the Fair Oaks Combination Fire Station and Police District Station in the 80s. Fire Station 31 was close to 21 before the move and left a big open area that was rapidly growing near RT66 and RT50 along RT50........
dave
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Fairfax had wanted to relocate Navy-Vale to either the developing area of South Reston or the US-50 corridor. The county offered the S. Reston (Foxmill) station the vollies with the provision for a County supplied engine to replace the 1970 ALF, that offer was rejected by the membership. The second offer to move is the current station that is just west of the West Ox intersection between what was a 7-11 and the Exxon station. The old station at 12504 Bennett Rd., is still being used by the County to store athletic equipment. The orginal station was barley inadequate to house the County crew of five. Fairfax did not single units on dispatch untiil later. The old station only A/C(1981)in the very small bunkroom until we breached a hole in the adjoinig dayroom wall and installed a window unit that vented into the washroom. The eating area was behind the wagon on the apparatus floor with a large bug zapper over the table. The restoom facilities consisted of one shower and three "pots" on septic system from 1957 which had difficulry "accepting" the increased staffing for the squad which brought the min. staffing to eight. The squad was placed into service after the County replaced Sqd-15 with a sorely needed truck company. The first due truck priro to trk-15 was Trk-3 with second due handled by Trk-25 and Trk-18 or Trk-13. The squad did not have any roof vents and would only fit into the wash bay of the Bennett Rd. station due to the door height limatations. The Chantilly Police Station (on Penrose Ave.) was an old rambler style house a beat up single wide with similiar restroom facilities.
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