Enterprise Fire Department's central station gears up to relocate

ENTERPRISE, AL (WSFA) -

The Enterprise Fire Department employs more than 50 people and responds to more than 2,000 emergency calls each year. With the growth of the city they are now relocating the central fire station.

Enterprise City Hall has housed the central fire station for a number of years, but now the process to move them to a new location has started.

The new building that the fire station will move to is located off Main Street. The city got a big bang for their buck with the owners selling the $500,000 facility to them for only $75,000. With four acres of land, the problem of space will no longer be an issue. Since this was previously a car dealership it will have to undergo some work. Architects have laid out their plans for the building to include an eight-bay garage for the fire trucks, a day room, sleeping quarters, administrative offices, and training area, among other additions.

"There is really no way that we would have had the opportunity to be able to afford to go out and build a building of this size. We have plenty of space out here to grow in the years to come. We are just amazed at and pleased with the room we got to do things we we were limited with at the other facility that we could not do," said Byron Herring, Enterprise fire chief.

The city council could accept a construction bid in the next couple of months. Construction is set to begin this year.

The funding for the project will come from the Coffee County fire service fee that was put in place several years ago. There are plans in the works for a fourth fire station.

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Enterprise Fire Department's central station gears up to relocate