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New fire station in Aurora (more)

This from Dave Weaver:

2/23/18 AURORA – Aurora FD Station 7 Grand Opening Open House 824 Kenilworth Pl. – Video by Dave Weaver

 

Excerpts From the City of Aurora:

The Aurora Fire Department hosted a two-day Grand Opening Celebration for its newest fire station.
 
A Ribbon Cutting Ceremony was held on Friday, February 23 at 10:30 a.m. for Fire Station 7, located at 824 Kenilworth Place. 
 
Replacing the former station that was built in 1957, the new Fire Station 7 is a state-of-the-art 1 0,325 sq. ft. facility. The Aurora Fire Department has put into service its seventh Advance Life Support paramedic unit at the new location – a first for the area.
 
The 3-bay station has such auxiliary spaces as a watch room, conference room, storage rooms, workshop and fitness area. The living areas include officers’ quarters, bunk rooms, kitchen area, dining area and day room area.
 

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New fire station in Aurora (more)

Excerpts from the DailyHerald.com:

Aurora firefighters will hold a two-day celebration starting Friday to mark the opening of the city’s new $4 million station. The city broke ground last year on the facility just west of the existing 1950s-era station in a neighborhood across from Abraham Lincoln Park. Firefighters made the move and began handling calls from Station No. 7 on Monday.

Space constraints were a major shortcoming of the 60-year-old station that wasn’t designed for modern fire apparatus. The building had room to house just one fire engine. Privacy also was an issue with one community-use bathroom and a 10-bed dormitory without any dividing walls.

By contrast, the new station has four individual bathrooms, living quarters arranged in cubicles, a workshop and a fitness area. A company officer, two paramedics, and two firefighters staff the roughly 10,500-square-foot station in 24-hour shifts.

Last summer, the city approved adding an ambulance to the station. But until the three-bay station opened, Medic 7 was running out of the central station downtown to cover the neighborhood on the city’s West Side. The city’s seventh advanced life-support ambulance has responded to more than 1,200 calls since it was put into service last July.

Firefighters will continue moving equipment into the new station over the next several days. Officials will gather for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Friday at 824 Kenilworth Place. They also will give tours of the building until 1 p.m. Guests are encouraged to RSVP by calling (630) 256-4008 or emailing fire@aurora-il.org.

Then on Saturday, the department will host a public open house from 1 to 4 p.m.

The building was designed with natural tones and materials that tie into the station’s surroundings in the neighborhood east of Aurora University.

The city plans to open bids for the demolition of the old station at the end of the month. The site of the existing building will become the parking lot for the new station. Officials hope to tear down the shuttered station before asphalt plants open at the start of April.

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New fire station in Aurora (more)

From the Aurora FD Facebook page:

Station 7 is coming along. Mayor Irvin and Alderman Juany Garza and Wegman Construction Company hold a picture of what the new station will look like upon completion.

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Aurora Fire Department news

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Aurora Fire Department news (more)

Excerpts from the Dailyherald.com:

Plans to build a $4 million fire station to replace one that was built in 1957 on Aurora’s west side won approval Tuesday from the city council.

Construction is set to begin in May and be complete by late December. The old station will be demolished after the new one is operational.

Assistant Chief of Support Services Donald Davids said Station 7, on Kenilworth Avenue in Lincoln Park, will remain fully operational while the new, 10,000-square-foot station is built about 15 feet away.  The current building has room to house only one fire engine.

“We want to add an ambulance to our fleet, which we have never had there,” Davids said. “The current layout doesn’t allow for one. In ’57, vehicles were smaller, people were smaller, and fitness equipment was not part of the equation.”

The station’s kitchen, for example, measures only 8-by-10 feet. The existing station was built to house two firefighters and a paramedic. The new station will have five staff members on duty 24 hours a day.

The style of the surrounding historic neighborhood, which includes Aurora University and Holy Angels School, was taken into consideration in designing the new facility.

Davids said the city has not built a fire station since 2007, when Station 8 opened on the city’s far east side.

“This project has been in the capital improvement plan for about 10 years,” he said.

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Aurora Fire Department news

Excerpts from the Chicagotribune.com:

Aurora could soon be building a new West Side fire station that has been in the works for almost 10 years. Aldermen are considering a resolution to hire a construction manager and architects to construct Fire Station 7 on Kenilworth Avenue in Lincoln Park. The resolution states that the construction manager would guarantee the project would not exceed $4 million.

A city capital improvement plan, originally submitted in 2007, had the Fire Station 7 replacement in it. The station was built in 1957 and not only is outmoded, city officials said, but is too small to handle a new medic unit.

Funds were approved in the 2016 budget to move forward with the design and engineering phase of the project, which has been completed.

City officials are hoping the council will approve the contract by the April 11 meeting and get station construction underway almost immediately after that. The council’s Finance Committee has already recommended the contract.

Fire officials have said they would like to have the new station operational by mid-December.

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