{"id":45787,"date":"2024-05-22T21:05:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T01:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=45787"},"modified":"2024-05-22T21:05:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T01:05:12","slug":"could-southwest-lakeland-see-another-fire-station-station-9-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/05\/22\/could-southwest-lakeland-see-another-fire-station-station-9-in-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Southwest Lakeland see another fire station? Station 9 in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During the city’s strategic planning retreat on May 14, Lakeland Fire Chief Doug Riley announced that the Lakeland Fire Department has worked out a deal with Lakeland International Airport to secure land for the future Fire Station 9 in the city’s southwest district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“We do have some good news. Our partners at the airport … they basically told us they have property south of the airport. They are willing to partner with us to allow us to have a piece of that property to build a fire station when the day comes when we are looking at Station 9,” Chief Riley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Airport Director Kris Hallstrand said the fire department has been offered land off the northeast corner of West Pipkin and Medulla roads. The site currently has concrete signage on the corner announcing it as the main entryway into the Sun ‘n Fun campus.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“If we can help the community by providing a need for the fire department, it’s a win for all of us,” Hallstrand said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The offered site on the south side of the airport is ideal in many ways, Riley told commissioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We could not ask for a better location, that’s an even bigger plus,” he said. “It’s a perfect spot, instant access to our main thoroughfares, signaled intersection, we couldn’t ask for it to be any better.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hallstrand said she had only one request in exchange for offering the land to the fire department: the future station includes a bay to house at least one aircraft fire rescue truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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