1/6/2024 0 Comments Dusk today gilroy1, three GFD captains and three paramedics began working two-person shifts at the Sunrise station. Near the station’s front entrance, there is a conference room that can be used by the greater Gilroy community. “I wish I had it in my home,” Maibaum added. “It’s really pretty snazzy,” McHenry said. There are three refrigerators and three food lockers, one for each shift, and all the appliances are shiny and new. The “pride and joy” of the station, as McHenry put it, is the industrial-sized kitchen. There also is an exercise room, but it has no equipment at the moment. “We get some privacy, which is nice,” McHenry said.įor the down time between emergency calls, there is a den with four lounge chairs and a widescreen television, courtesy of their union. Unlike the common dorm rooms at the Las Animas and Chestnut stations, Sunrise has four separate dorm rooms with two beds in each. King said a Sunrise fire crew is not currently included in the city budget for 2004-05, which City Council members are expected to finalize next month. The station is designed to house a four-person fire-engine crew, but it’s looking like that won’t happen in the upcoming fiscal year, which begins July 1. After two days off, they’ll be back for another 24-hour shift. “It’s kind of like moving into a house when all is said and done because you’ve got to be there for 24 hours at a time,” Gilroy Fire Department Division Chief Phil King said Tuesday. Now the GFD and the firefighters’ union are busy buying furniture, dishes, flatware and cleaning products. The crew made the move last Thursday afternoon. The new facility is finished enough for a two-person team of one captain and one firefighter/paramedic to work and live out of. The biggest job is to get the trailer hauled away and pour concrete on the ground where it stood. Around them, a handful of construction workers buzzed around, but it’s clear from looking around that there’s not much left to do. Moe McHenry and firefighter/paramedic Heinz Maibaum happily settled into the new digs Tuesday. GILROY – After spending eight and a half months working and living out of a trailer, emergency workers have moved into a new fire station on Sunrise Drive, the city’s third. Pour concrete on the ground where it stood. The biggest job is to get the trailer hauled away and Around them, a handful of construction workers buzzedĪround, but it’s clear from looking around that there’s not much Moe McHenry andįirefighter/paramedic Heinz Maibaum happily settled into the newĭigs Tuesday. Of a trailer, emergency workers have moved into a new fire station – After spending eight and a half months working and living out
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