Bella Vista Considers Fourth Fire Station
By: Tyler Thomason
Updated: March 18, 2013
"We obviously need something because the number of runs are going up consistently," says Mayor Frank Anderson.
Phone calls are forcing Bella Vista to consider a fourth fire station.
"To get a little closer to where several of our calls come from," Anderson says.
He's referring to the ever-growing Highlands area on the west side of town.
According to Fire Chief Stephen Sims, the nearest station there has an on-the-clock ambulance staff of two.
"When those people are gone sometimes they're gone for over two hours or longer," Sims says.
"Basically every day that station is empty at one point in time."
Through analysis and the projected location of this new substation, Sims believes it would be the second busiest one in town, housing two ambulances and a truck just like this one.
"We'd also probably house a brush truck, and maybe some other insulary equipment that we need for the fire department," Sims says.
An exclamation point that adds to this potential need: Bella Vista doesn't house a single hospital inside city limits.
So, when ambulances transport patients, scarce resources become scarcer.
"Our calls are probably a little longer duration on average than some of the other cities," Anderson says.
Approving a new station could be a far way off, mainly because the city leases the buildings it's three current fire stations operate out of.
Mayor Frank Anderson says the process of purchasing those buildings has underway, and he wants that to happen before a fourth is built -- even though the cash to build a station No. 4 is there.
"We could build the station tomorrow," Anderson says.
"It's all going to have to play together, it's going to have to work together, it's going to have to all be done sort of in conjunction,"
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