County Moves Forward with New Herndon Fire Station Plans

For years Fairfax County has debated where to move Herndon's central fire station on Spring Street, but after looking at more than 30 alternate locations . 

According to the Fairfax Times, the county will tear down and rebuild Station No. 4, located at 680 Spring St., and the project will cost $11 million. The funding for the project was approved by voters in a bond referendum last November. The station is the county's oldest existing fire station. 

County officials said the station is outdated, too small for equipment such as ladder trucks, and doesn't have separate living quarters for the male and female firefighters. 

Construction on the project is expected to begin in the spring of 2013 and end in 2015. A temporary station will be used during the construction, to be located at 791 Elden St.

Read the full article at the Fairfax Times.