Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin said the campus will also serve as a “regional training laboratory” for other public safety officials to learn best practices from Aurora’s police and fire departments.…
Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin announced at his public safety and community engagement-focused State of the City address on Wednesday evening that the Aurora Fire Department would be moving its headquarters onto the same site as the current Aurora Police Department headquarters to create a comprehensive public safety campus.
Now with six chief officers, not including administrative support staff, the current headquarters is “bursting at the seams,” McCabe said. So, the new headquarters building will include lots of space for offices and for training, both of which McCabe said are lacking at the current headquarters. “This building, when it opened 44 years ago, they probably imagined they had all the space they’d ever need,” McCabe said about the current headquarters. “They never imagined the fire department being as big as it is. We’re trying to make sure that that’s not the case 30, 40 years from now.”
McCabe said the location of the new headquarters will be helpful for two reasons. First, it will make it easier for the police and fire departments to communicate with each other, he said.
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