Grand Island NE Fire & Rescue Station No. 1

After attending the national FIERO Fire Station Symposium in Charlotte, NC and learning about Stewart-Cooper-Newell’s experience in Public Safety, the City of Grand Island contacted our firm to request that we team with a local architect to design their new fire department substation. We worked side-by-side with local design firm CMB Architects and were able to assist with the programming and schematic design of the new station.

The programming and design offered unique challenges as the site was in close proximity to a major theme park and experienced a great deal of vehicular traffic on a seasonal basis.  Further, the climate of Nebraska and the vast difference in temperature across the seasons proved to be an obstacle in designing for all weather conditions.

The results of SCN’s study of the department’s needs led to the design of a 4-bay station with added training features and radiant floor heating in the bays.  The program also called for eight private sleep rooms with private bathrooms, a large exercise room with sports flooring, kitchen and dining facilities, a training / community room, offices, and all necessary decontamination, turn-out gear storage and SCBA facilities. The brass fire pole was moved from the original station to this new facility.