Urban Fire Station Contruction

[Darius]

makes a good group base. 3 bays for trucks, group car bays,Radio rooms, offices, kitchens, BA room, large meeting room with all the toys, huge PPE storage area that could also probably fit another truck if need be.
we also used to have a little transport bus thing for transporting replacment crews, but im not sure if we still have that. Either way, I reckon this would be great for a super busy urban station.

it's fine for a station but way too small for the group base + station.  There is no inside parking for the group cars (what car bays are you referring to?), 1 radio room (combined base radio room and bridgewater station radio room), 1 kitchen (which is fine) and a very small group base office area.  The small bus is still there, it is what gets shifted out the way for large incidents and that bay has temporary tables and phones etc go in for the IMT.

[Toast]

Glass hammer to the window, pull the hand brake, roll it out of the way. It would depend on the call of course. Default for a tree down, smash and move for RCR, persons trapped.  Its not like the place is not well sign posted. There are around... 9 I think, signs stating NOT to park in front of the station.

it doesn't help your case though toast that you have a kindergarten next door, a theatre across the driveway and a park behind that. Is it a bitch to park your car for a callout when something is on at the theatre or when parents are picking up kids from the kindy?

The area in which we park has a sign designating it for CFS parking only, with a 5 minute limit for Kindy pick up and drop off. This does get abused by the theatre and lazy parents not wanting to park in 30+ Bays behind the station and walk down to pick up their kiddies.

The best excuse was "Its not summer, why does it matter?"

[probie_boy]

Darius, it seems my ideas and conceptions of bridgewater do, in fact, suck. my broup car bay was the bus bay on the end. Yeah so from what you've said, good station, bad for group base.

however, thats probably the best station for group base in lofty isn't it? Stirling would be alright, but they're busier than bridgey and have more limited parking than bridgewater too. a mighty dilemma!

[Toast]

Ahhhh, back in the days of Stirling Group...

[Darius]

Darius, it seems my ideas and conceptions of bridgewater do, in fact, suck. my broup car bay was the bus bay on the end. Yeah so from what you've said, good station, bad for group base.

however, thats probably the best station for group base in lofty isn't it? Stirling would be alright, but they're busier than bridgey and have more limited parking than bridgewater too. a mighty dilemma!

yeah well there is no real alternative, that's the problem.  Stirling is not really gonna work, and neither is at the new Aldgate station (when that happens!).  There was talk (a long time ago) of using the ambo station back towards Aldgate near the bus depot for the group base, cos the ambos were going to move closer to the freeway, but that never happened.

the best option at the moment (IMO) is to expand at Bridgewater out the side a bit.

[probie_boy]

right so thats where stirling ambulance station is! yeah there's a fair bit of room there, we comfortably fitted a 6 truck strike team and group base operators cars all in the carpark at the same time.

[CFS_Firey]

By 6 truck strike team, I hope you mean 5 trucks and 1 command car probie
I the co-location of Ambo's and CFS would be a good thing, so why not build a group base on the second story of the new ambulance station.. (Hah! yeah right:P)

[probie_boy]

yeah, yeah...thats the one