Fire Station #5 operational June 21

Although Lethbridge City Council approved up to $10.3 million to construct the station, the total bill only came to $9.5 million.

There is currently an active fire hall on the west side of Lethbridge. Fire Station #2 is located on Whoop-Up Drive and Jerry Potts Boulevard and was built in 1980. Back then, the population in the west was approximately 4,000. Today, the area population is close to 40,000.

There are three stations on the east side of the city, with only the one in the west. The new facility will help meet the growing demands of emergency response in west Lethbridge.

Deputy Chief of Strategic Services, Greg Adair, explained that the design will see the hall include a “clean side” and a “dirty side”.

“The living quarters is the clean side of the fire hall – that’s where people will reside and that’s where they will have their meeting rooms, their training rooms, their lunchroom,” he said.

“The firefighting equipment and apparatus will stay on the dirty side of the fire hall…not that it’s dirty over there, it’ll also be very clean and sanitary, but we try to separate that just for our firefighter safety.”

Fire Truck

Adair said they’ve hired 25 people for the new fire hall, and they are currently in the process of training.

“When this fire hall opens up, they’ll all be trained and ready to go,” he remarked.

The station opens Monday and Fire Station #2 will remain active.

Kitchen

Meeting room

by Connor Gunn

Fire Station #5 operational June 21

What's Happening