Hampton to Break Ground on New Fire Station

The City of Hampton will break ground on its first new fire station in 24 years on January 27.  The groundbreaking ceremony for Fire Station 11 will be held at 10 a.m. at 1304 Big Bethel Road. 

The new fire station will service 1,100 residential and commercial occupancies in the northwest quadrant of the city, presently served by Northampton Station 6, NASA Station 8 and Marcella Station 10.  Its service area will encompass the Big Bethel Road corridor from the York County line to Michael’s Woods, Hampton Roads Center Parkway to Magruder Boulevard, Saunders Road to the Newport News line, and I-64 to Mercury Boulevard. 

A response time study identified the Big Bethel Road corridor as the best location for a new station.  Along with reducing the demands on the stations now serving the area, adding an additional fire station would reduce response times.  While current response times for the Big Bethel Road corridor range from six to 12 minutes, the new station will reduce response times to 4 minutes, meeting the national response time standard.  The new station is estimated to reduce call volume for the Northampton Station by 16 percent and the Marcella Station by 7 percent.

The 14,500-square-foot station will feature:

• three apparatus bays
• six individual sleep rooms, each with a bathroom and shower
• eat-in kitchen
• dayroom
• exercise room
• laundry room
• decon/washroom (to wash and disinfect firefighting gear)
• radio/report room
• training/community room, which will be available for public use by community groups and civic organizations when not being used by the Fire department
• storage area

The station is also slated to house the City’s alternate emergency operations center and 911 and 311 centers.

The new station costs $3.2 million and is slated to be completed in February 2012.

Mayor Molly Ward, City Manager Mary Bunting, Acting Assistant City Manager James Gray, and Acting Fire Chief Tracy Hanger will be available for comment following the ceremony.

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City Manager’s Office
22 Lincoln Street
Hampton, VA 23669

Mary Bunting,
City Manager

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