Redwood station to serve communities in fire-prone unincorporated areas
Santa Clara County Fire Chief Suwanna Kerdkaew speaks at the Oct. 30 grand opening of the Redwood Fire Station in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The new station is triple the size of the previous one that served unincorporated mountain communities.The Santa Clara County Fire Department has more than three times the space to fight fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains with last week’s opening of the Redwood Fire Station.
The new station includes three additional dormitories to house firefighters, a lookout tower for firefighters to spot vegetation fires and an increased capacity to accommodate more fire engines and utility vehicles, officials with the department said at the grand opening on Oct. 30. Located in Redwood Estates off Highway 17, the station will serve residents of that and other unincorporated communities, including Chemeketa Park and Lexington Hills, providing a service to an area where fire safety has long been a concern. Not only are the Santa Cruz Mountains more prone to wildfires, its roadways can be difficult to navigate by car in extreme weather.
The station “went from being two very outdated, quaint modular buildings, which is a nice way to say it, to the modern two-story building you see today,” she said.as the cause of four separate small fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains this summer, which put some residents on edge.
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