Article: United States: County to build two fire stations.

Byline: sander03

The Highlands County commissioners on Tuesday launched the process of building new stations at the West Sebring and Leisure Lakes volunteer fire departments.To improve EMS response times, plans are to put an ambulance crew into the new West Sebring fire station on Hammock Road when it opens, said Steve Coltharp, EMS director.

An EMS crew will not go into the new Leisure Lakes fire station immediately. The facility is being designed so that can happen in the future, according to Coltharp and Tim Eures, county emergency operations director and liaison to the 10 volunteer fire departments."It's a first step toward integrating EMS and fire ...

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