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<\/a><\/p>\nCurrent Tiller Count<\/strong><\/p>\n What’s the current tiller count, statewide?<\/p>\n Station 13<\/strong><\/p>\n Construction of Station 13 on Broadway (east side of the street) at Magnolia will begin\u00a0after completion of a department Master Plan.\u00a0Three-story, two-bay engine house, we’re told.\u00a0The third floor\u00a0will likely house the Arson Task Force.<\/p>\n An engine house for the Montford\/Richmond Hill area has been touted for years. And, if anything, could’ve been initiated after the Highland Hospital fire in 1948. The city’s deadliest fire occurred on March 10, 1948, and killed nine women including author Zelda Fitzgerald. (See my database<\/a> for the state’s deadliest fires.)<\/p>\n The site was purchased in 2014. The project budget is $3.9 million, per the FY18 budget<\/a>. For more info, this AshVegas story from 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n Engine 13 will be first-due to the Montford Area west, and second-due with Engine 7 to UNC-Asheville. It’ll also be the closest company to future Interstate 26, toward Woodfin. It’ll also respond downtown for structure fires, on the first alarm.<\/p>\n Two More Engines Coming<\/strong><\/p>\n In February, new Engine 6 was delivered. The 2018 KME Predator, 1500\/500 (read specs[1]) is the first of three engines with a new “RIT” (Rapid Intervention Team) spec, with more storage capacity, among other features. New Engine 1 is due after FDIC, where it’s planned for display. New Engine 9 is due in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n [1] Link now broken, http:\/\/www.kmefire.com\/featured-deliveries\/pumper\/gso-10612<\/p>\n Engine 6 is notable for historically styled lettering, similar to the design from their horse-drawn days. Notes\u00a0an Asheville FD\u00a0historian, apparatus is lately lettered “Asheville Fire Department” since 2010[1]. Previously rigs were lettered “Asheville Fire-Rescue” since 1989. Before then, they said “City of Asheville” since 1941.<\/p>\n\n
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