Remington Celebrates New Safety Building
By Alexandra Bogdanovic
Members of the Remington Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department celebrated a rich past and a promising future as they unveiled their new building on Saturday.
Guest speaker Bert Roby said he visited the Remington Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department's headquarters many times as both a firefighter in another county and as a representative from the Virginia Department of Fire Programs.
"It's kind of cliché to say that buildings don't make a fire and rescue department — the people do," Roby said.
"But there's no other organization [in the community] that is so readily identified by its vehicles or its building. You look at a firehouse and you think, that's quite a building, it must be quite a department. But you don't drive by a Giant or a Safeway and think, that's a nice building, it must be a great supermarket. It's just a supermarket."
With the additions and renovations, the new fire and rescue station is about five times larger than the original. In addition to new apparatus bays, the facility features a new situation room (where all the calls come in), administrative offices, training rooms and bunk rooms. There's also a new day room, a new kitchen and a new exercise and game room.
The amenities allow volunteer fire and rescue personnel to stay at the station around the clock instead of responding to calls from home at night.
In all, the project took 18 months to complete and cost approximately $5.2 million. The bulk of the funding ($3.7 million) came from a U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Loan. The Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association raised the rest.
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