Ground Broken On Hudson Fire Station Designed To Protect Firefighters

HUDSON, FL — Pasco County Fire Rescue and county officials celebrated a groundbreaking event Monday for a state-of-the art fire station in Hudson designed to protect firefighters after coming into contact with cancer-causing materials.

Located at 7736 State Road 52, near Majestic Boulevard in Hudson, Fire Station No. 3 will be a 16,046-square-foot, four-bay fire station featuring a unique hot, warm and cold zone design aimed at reducing firefighter cancer rates along with other firefighter safety and health features.

The zones will allow firefighters to clean carcinogens off their bodies before entering the fire station's living quarters.

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The station also has larger bays to accommodate specialty apparatus, a built-in 16-member training classroom for multi-station training, a flex room to house additional firefighters during a major emergency, and an advanced station alert system aimed at improving firefighter health and wellness.

This groundbreaking marked the fourth new station to be paid for with the G.O.Bond for Pasco County Fire Rescue.