Chesapeake Va Fire Stations

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Station 13 Cornland.



Station 13 is located at 2900 Benefit Rd in the south end of Chesapeake, all by it’s lonesome near the bottom of the knight’s cape and is a clone of Station 10. The station was built in 1974 to plug a huge gap in that end of the city…before Station 13 was built Stations 5, 7, and 8 covered the area with long LONG response times required.



   





Originally Station 13 had a pair of engines and a brush truck manned by a single salaried firefighter and a single officer supplemented by volunteers. Manpower is now 3 firefighters and an officer on Engine 13, and the rig’s a huge Pierce Pumper/Tanker with a 1750 gallon tank (It’s twin’s at Station 7) Engine 13 shares quarters with Brush 13



I talked at length with a young lady assigned to Engine 13,…they have very few hydrants and are getting mansion sized homes in their area. I can attest to this as I passed a couple of homes that could have easily passed as office buildings.