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The Project
The community has joined together to build a new building for Ambulance and Fire Department equipment and training. The building is at the NW corner of the intersection of Highways 59 and B40 has been selected.
This is an architect's version of the building. The training/meeting room is large enough for the squad and emergency personnel from neighboring towns who are training with Primghar. The next view is an aerial perspective of the building, lot, and highways (Hwy 59 to the east-right; B40 to the south-buildings front.)
The proposed layout, shown below, was essentially the final design--simple, safe and functional. Trucks can be washed indoors and filled using an overhead plumbing system. There is room along the walls for storing gear--hats, coats, boots. And room to dry hose after a fire. It takes a lot! (North is to the top.)
Pictures from Architects Collaborative, Spencer, Iowa
The cost was around $400,000 (original estimate: $275,000). To reduce the cost, volunteers did much of the labor. If you want to help, make checks payable to: Primghar Emergency Service Building Fund.
| Send them to: | Maureen Thompson
PO. Box 62
Primghar, IA 51245
Telephone: 712-957-6795 |
Contacts for questions
or information: | Maureen email
L. Edwards: 712.957.0206
K. Smith: 712.957.4627 |
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WHY A NEW BUILDING
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The 1960 building needs repairs. Repairs of course are less expensive than a new building but there enough other issues that make a new building a much more desirable course. Number one is the consolidation of all emergency services in one building. For all auto accidents both fire and ambulance respond. For ambulance calls where the patient is heavy or moving them is diffucult (up or down stairs, for example) firemen are called upon to help. At house fires, it may become the policy for the ambulance to respond and stand by (oxygen, warmth). Being together in one building may encourage cross training and would certainly make that training easier. |
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And then there is equipment. New OSHA standards dictate that all firemen must ride inside the truck. So trucks are longer. And new equipment is bigger. Compare a 1950's truck and a 1980 truck; the 2005 trucks are bigger still. Look at the picture above. Notice the difference in the widths of the doors.
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Parking a truck in the large bay on the right is, for safety reasons, a two man job. The clearance fore and aft of the truck is two feet and five feet respectively. New trucks would not fit in that bay. And backing through the smaller bay doors is almost a safety issue just getting through them.
For the tanker, which parks in the north bay (one of the narrow ones), there isn't much room at all. Any maintenance or equipment inspection is almost impossible without pulling the truck out. The trim on the south side of the door was ripped out by someone backing in a quarter of an inch too far to the south.
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BUY A BRICK
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The new fire station has a partial brick facade in the foyer. The EMS committee extended the commemorative brick selection period. For $125 you can have a brick inscribed with a three line phrase. . Only 200 more bricks will be displayed. The bricks are like the sample shown here. Of your $125 donation, about $100 will go to the building fund. |
| To order, please print and send the order form(s) with a check payable to Primghar Emergency Services Building Fund to cover the number of bricks you wish. Choose the type of printable form you want: Word Document or Web Page. Please print clearly; please be sure to include a means to contact you if necessary. |
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Assembled by ovk. Last updated 6/22/2005.
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