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Construction on new west Lethbridge fire hall underway

Construction is now underway on a brand new fire hall on the city’s west side.

Fire Station #5 is being built in the Watermark neighbourhood west of Sunridge and Varsity Village and is slated to open and be in full operation next year.

Project Manager Jace Adams says people will notice this building will be taking shape in short order. “The new fire Station is made of precast concrete wall panels. This means, concrete panels are pre-constructed and then craned in place at the site. Because of this, residents will see the building go up quite quickly.”

The current west Lethbridge fire hall, Station #2 on Jerry Potts Boulevard, was built back in 1980. That’s when the west side had around 4,000 residents. Fast forward to today and that fire hall remains the only one on that side of the river with the population ballooning to over 40,000 people.

“West Lethbridge continues to be the fastest growing area of the city,” says Greg Adair, Deputy Fire Chief with Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services. “This new building will not only fill the current need but to also address what our community will need for future growth.”

Adair notes Fire Station #5 will employ 25 people who will be trained and ready to go when the building is complete along with new firefighting equipment and apparatus.

The cost of this new one is around $10.3 million and was approved by City Council two years ago.

For more information visit: www.lethbridge.ca/firestation5.

(With files from City of Lethbridge)

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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