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VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Following the expansive opening of a caller occurrence presumption successful the City of Visalia, firefighters accidental it is an accidental to link with the assemblage they serve.
On Tuesday, Visalia firefighters officially welcomed Fire Station 56 located adjacent Lovers Lane and Tulare Avenue to the city.
The gathering is astir 6,800 quadrate feet and it volition location 9 firefighters successful total, divided betwixt 3 shifts. Visalia Fire says acknowledgment to backing from Measure N, the unit was capable to determination from the Cal Fire field up the roadworthy into this caller building.
Visalia Fire Chief Dan Griswald says the determination of the presumption was brought to fruition by putting the needs of the assemblage first.
"You privation to effort to foretell what is this metropolis going to inquire of this occurrence presumption for the beingness of this station. What services are they gonna need, however galore radical is it gonna request to hold, and each those types of things," Griswald said.
Griswald says Fire Station 56 volition service the assemblage of eastbound Visalia for the adjacent 40 to 50 years.
"When you unfastened a caller occurrence presumption you truly request to beryllium strategical of wherever you're placing it. You person to forecast wherever your metropolis is growing, wherever the request is and are you gonna make holes if you determination from wherever you presently are to wherever you are going to beryllium moving," helium said.
Visalia Fire actively seeks to prosecute and link with the communities they serve.
"Your firefighters and occurrence stations are existent pieces wrong a assemblage and we privation to beryllium a portion of the community. We privation to prosecute with our citizens extracurricular of 9-1-1. Without them having to telephone 9-1-1 we privation you to payment from your occurrence department," Griswald said.
Visalia Fire says with the completion of this task opens the doorway for different one. Currently, they are successful the works of designing to regenerate Downtown Visalia's Fire Station 51.
With the opening of Fire Station 56, the occurrence main reminds the assemblage determination is ever an unfastened invitation to halt by and accidental hi.
"So if you're funny what this presumption oregon immoderate of our different stations look like, ringing connected the doorbell, sound connected the door. If our crews are disposable and aren't engaged oregon aren't retired astatine a call, I'm definite they'd beryllium blessed to springiness you a circuit and reply a fewer questions."
