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This Just In!
Chugiak's Lowe Fire Station near Fred Meyer has been closed because of structural instability, and it's equipment has been relocated at other stations around the service area.
The ice and snow load, coupled with the unprecedented freeze-thaw cycles earlier in the year, kept the metal roof from shedding it's load properly, resulting in damaged trusses and supports. A private engineering firm evaluated the building and said repairing the damage likely would not be cost effective in such an old building. The structure was purchased seven years ago after serving many years as a motor home repair facility.
Chugiak Fire Chief Tom Reinbolt said while having to move out is inconvenient, it will have negligible effect on response times as the station has no sleeping quarters, and is never staffed full-time. Latimer Station, two miles up the Old Glenn Highway, has sleeping quarters and most responses ordinate there. The department also has three other station spread throughout the service area.
A search is under way for a site for a new station and the Chugiak-Eagle River legislative delegation is pursuing capital funds to assist in it's construction. Chief Reinbolt said it is expected to take 18-24 months for the project to be completed.
Local community councils and assembly members have been briefed on the station and are supportive of the new building. The last time a new station was built for the Chugiak Volunteer Fire and Rescue Co., Inc. was in early 1980's when a steel building, not much more than a heated garage, was erected in Peters Creek.
Several additions have been made to Latimer Station, A building originally moved to the site from the military bases new Anchorage.
"We are excited at the prospect of designing and building a brand new station capable of handling the modern, much larger fire apparatus and housing our administrative offices," Chief Reinbolt said. A training room will be incorporated and is envisioned the meeting space would be available to community members and organizations, he said.
Lowe Station was named for O.W. "Bill" Lowe who served more than 20 years on the publicly elected Board of Supervisors for the fire department before he was killed in a traffic accident on the Old Glenn Highway.
The Chugiak department has served the area between the North Eagle River overpass and the Kink River Bridge for 60 years and now has approximately 75 members and more than two dozen pieces of fire equipment.
"Bill Lowe" Station 35 Press Release
