Fire Facts
Almost half of all fatal fires start at night when people are asleep.
Source: NFPA's U.S. Experience with Smoke Alarms and Other Fire Alarms and national estimates reported to U.S. municipal fire departments based on NFIRS and NFPA survey.
Slideshow of photos taken during of the construction progress made the week of November 24-28, 2008.
Narratives from the slideshow
- 11-24-2008 Additional forms are in place for the next concrete pour on the east drives
- 11-24-2008 Apparatus bays - front view
- 11-24-2008 Front drive approaches are ready for concrete to be poured
- 11-24-2008 Front view of Station 7
- 11-24-2008 Overhead view of Station 7
- 11-24-2008 Station 7 from the south
- 11-24-2008 The apparatus bay - doors are installed and painters have applied a primer coat of filler and paint to the masonry walls
- 11-25-2008 HVAC contractors continue installation work
- 11-25-2008 Painters continue to work in the apparatus bay
- 11-25-2008 Painters finish painting the steel support beams in the apparatus bays
- 11-25-2008 Steel works smooth rough spots so that painters can apply a finish coat to exterior steel
- 11-28-2008 Exterior steel painted above brick columns
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