PULSE Magazine | February 2020 Issue

Fleet & Facilities

New Del Valle / Moore’s Crossing Station

Division Chief Wes Hopkins and Facilities Coordinator Gadiel Arellano recently toured the new Del Valle / Moore’s Crossing Station set to open in June 2020. The station will house a new 24 hr. ambulance and this will be EMS Station #36. Chief Hopkins is overseeing the construction for EMS

The site includes an additional five bay EMS storage facility that will house special events assets includ- ing offices, showers/bathroom, and a safe sleep area.

Chief Hopkins and Gadiel Arellano also took a virtual reality tour of the station. This allowed them to confirm dimensions, egress, exiting, etc. J.E. Dunn Construction and PGAL Architectural Designer are the construction company and architectural firm that are designing and building the proposed five new EMS/Fire stations.

In addition to the new stations the new Dodge 5500s set to hit the street in about a month. This is the first 5500 EMS has deployed. A new command truck (District Command 1’s new unit and the Dodge 5500 are pictured on the following pages) will hit the street in a few weeks.

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