New Goodyear fire station design puts firefighters’ health first
Dec 22, 2019, 4:05 AM
(Goodyear Fire Station rendering)
(Goodyear Fire Station rendering)
PHOENIX – The Goodyear City Council approved funding this week for the creation of two new health-conscious fire stations.
The stations will focus on firefighters’ long-term health as the buildings will be designed with more efficient decontamination procedures.
“Over the last few years, firefighters across the country on average are seeing an increase in cancer diagnoses from the exposures they encounter on fires,” Goodyear Deputy Fire Chief Tom Cole said in a press release.
The stations will feature a separate “living” and “business” area.
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“Rather than just one door into the station, you’ll see a two-door system with a space to help trap those contaminants, and knock-off carpeting on the ground to knock things off of our footwear, and keep the clean side of the station as clean as possible,” Cole said.
Station 181 will be a 15,855 square-foot facility at 143rd Avenue between Van Buren Street and Celebrate Life Way. It will take the place of a decommissioned station currently there.
Construction on Station 181 will begin in April and will be completed in early 2021.
The other station, 186, will be a 12,587 square-foot facility located at Willis Road, just east of Rainbow Valley Road. Construction on this location will begin in March and finish by the end of 2020.
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