Fire Facts
Children also start fires by playing with candles, fireworks, stoves and cigarettes.
From NFPA's Children Playing with Fire, March 2005.
Slideshow of photos taken during of the construction progress made the week of July 14-18, 2008.
Narratives from the slideshow
- Mason erect scaffolding and set concrete blocks in preparation of constructing the wall between the living area and the apparatus bays
- View from the bays looking towards the living quarters
- Masons cutting concrete block
- Starting another course of blocks
- The wall between the bays and the living quarters begins to take shape
- Buttering the last block in a course along the interior wall
- Preparation begins to construct the outer wall on the south side of the apparatus bays
- Masons prepare the outer walls for the brick veneer
- The exterior wall along the south side of the bays begins to take shape
- Work on interior walls continues
- A view of Station 7 looking from northwest to southeast
- Significant progress on the exterior and interior walls has been made