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David Schwab | Noticias del Centro<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Council President Todd Gloria and Councilmember Kevin Faulconer have dug deep into their own office pockets to come up with the $10,000 needed to renovate one of the City’s oldest fire stations, located in Little Italy.<\/p>\n

The two city councilmembers were joined by San Diego Fire-Rescue Chief Javier Mainar and Fire-Rescue Capt. Becky Newell on Feb. 11 to officially launch the remodel of Fire Station 3 at 725 W. Kalmia.<\/p>\n

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Firefighters from Little Italy Fire Station 3 stand behind Councilmember Kevin Faulconer and Council President Todd Gloria (speaking) during the announcement. (Courtesy Council President Gloria)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cFire Station 3 began operations at Fourth Avenue and Laurel Street in 1900,\u201d said Gloria, noting the station has been at its current location since 1977. \u201cWhile we can still operate fairly effectively from this location, parts of this building are really showing its age.\u201d<\/p>\n

The improvements to be made at Station 3 are far from cosmetic, Mainar said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe purpose of the fire station here is to serve our community as a base from which to operate,\u201d said the fire chief. \u201cBut for firefighters, it serves as a home-away-from-home for the often more than 24-hour shifts they spend in the station.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mainar said renovations will also improve the firefighters’ sleeping quarters.<\/p>\n

Noting it’s important for firefighters to get \u201cdown time\u201d to sleep during their long shifts, Mainar also said, “They need to get away from people like me who tend to snore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s really great to be partnering on this,\u201d said Faulconer,\u00a0who represented Little Italy for seven years until a redistricting change following the 2010 census.\u00a0Now the councilmember for the city\u2019s second district, Faulconer pointed out Little Italy’s Fire Station responded to more than 1,700 incident calls last fiscal year.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsing the funds from my and Council President Gloria’s budget, Fire Station 3 will receive permanent upgrades to their dormitory area and partitions will be constructed to separate each crew person’s bunk, resulting in improved living conditions for the personnel assigned here 24 hours a day, as well as accommodating co-ed crews,” Faulconer said. “I’m proud to help improve the daily quality of life for the brave men and women of the Fire and Rescue Department who protect our quality of life every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gloria said the needs of Fire Station 3 are indicative of a shortfall of firefighting services citywide.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe City of San Diego needs somewhere between 12 and 22 new fire stations, and countless more of our current 47 stations are in need of repairs and renovation,\u201d he said. \u201cAs it stands now, the repairs are often completed by our firefighters in between fighting fires and responding to medical emergencies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mainar said there isn’t a start date yet for Fire Station 3 rehabilitation, but added once work starts the project won’t take long as it largely involves constructing partitioned walls.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe $10,000 we got from councilmembers Gloria and Faulconer, plus funds the community has raised, is a great jump-start,\u201d Mainar said. \u201cThat is always the first challenge. How do you fund a project like this, even though it’s really necessary, because there are just too many competing priorities sometimes?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mainar said firefighters \u201cappreciate the affections this community have given this fire station,\u201d adding that they \u201cfeel privileged, honored and humbled to have the opportunity to serve our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dave Schwab came to San Diego 30 years ago with a journalism degree from Michigan State University. He has worked for numerous dailies and weeklies and now freelances for a variety of regional publications. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, hiking, sports and spending time with friends. He can be reached at <\/em>dschwabie@journalist.com<\/em><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Dave Schwab | Downtown News Council President Todd Gloria and Councilmember Kevin Faulconer have dug deep into their own office pockets to come up with the $10,000 needed to renovate one of the City’s oldest fire stations, located in Little Italy. The two city councilmembers were joined by San Diego Fire-Rescue Chief Javier Mainar and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":840,"featured_media":236067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Little Italy\u2019s Fire Station 3 gets funding for renovations","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11551,11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}