{"id":35617,"date":"2023-09-09T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T18:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=35617"},"modified":"2023-09-09T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T18:20:15","slug":"a-group-of-lakeland-homeowners-are-calling-on-city-officials-to-create-a-temporary-fire-station-8-given-four-and-a-half-years-later-the-city-still-doesnt-have-a-site-to-build-a-permanent-station-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/09\/09\/a-group-of-lakeland-homeowners-are-calling-on-city-officials-to-create-a-temporary-fire-station-8-given-four-and-a-half-years-later-the-city-still-doesnt-have-a-site-to-build-a-permanent-station-on\/","title":{"rendered":"A group of Lakeland homeowners are calling on city officials to create a temporary Fire Station 8 given four and a half years later the city still doesn&#8217;t have a site to build a permanent station on."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Gloria Hodgdon, president of Foxwood Lake Estates, She has asked Lakeland commissioners if they had purchased land for new Fire Station 8, to be built in Northwest Lakeland.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/station-3-png.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/station-3-png.png 400w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/station-3-png-300x225.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If not, Hodgdon asked the commission to consider building a temporary station to improve public safety by reducing response times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commissioner Sam Simmons, who represents the Northwest District, backed Hodgdon&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I would like to see a temporary fire station in Northwest also,&#8221; Simmons said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland Fire Chief Doug Riley told commissioners the ideal location would be north of I-4 and easy access to U.S. Highway 98 North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Fire Station 8 is one of our highest priorities here at the city,&#8221; City Manager Shawn Sherrouse said at Thursday&#8217;s budget hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sherrouse revealed the city recently went out and ordered an appraisal of a property from a third-party consultant on the city&#8217;s behalf that was finalized Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are negotiating. We have some options that are positive \u2014 at least looking positive \u2014 and we need to continue the process out,&#8221; Sherrouse said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Gloria Hodgdon, president of Foxwood Lake Estates, She has asked Lakeland commissioners if they had purchased land for new Fire Station 8, to be built in Northwest Lakeland.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[5935],"class_list":["post-35617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-a-group-of-lakeland-homeowners-are-calling-on-city-officials-to-create-a-temporary-fire-station-8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}