HAHIRA —
The City of Hahira will cut a ribbon for a new EMS facility and a renovated portion of the Hahira Fire Department Complex Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the fire department.
The ceremony will also serve to commemorate the remembrance of the nearly 3,000 who died in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Construction on the second floor of the fire department facility cost the City about $50,000, according to City Manager Jonathan Sumner, and will allow the firefighters to move their offices out of the former flower shop adjacent to the building. In turn, Emergency Medical Technicians will move into the vacated offices from their current location on Church St., Sumner said.
“The Council feels like it’s a priority for the EMS ambulance and staff to be located in the city,” Sumner said. “We felt like the current
location at the former fire department is in bad need of repair, so we felt like putting them next to the new fire department.”
The construction of the new fire department and renovations to all facilities cost about $135,000 total, Sumner said.
Following the ribbon cutting, Mayor Wayne Bullard will speak and attendees will be invited to tour the fire department’s second floor. The event will last about an hour.
Hahira Fire Chief Dwight Bennett, before he came to Hahira, was one of five Lowndes County Fire Rescue firefighters who went to New York Sept. 12, 2001 to assist emergency responders at Ground Zero. He said it’s important to remember the sacrifices Americans made during that time, and that are continuing to be made by our military.
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