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But it's a tight fit for all the necessary equipment and staff, and the building's age is a constant source of maintenance headaches, Interim Fire Chief Ted Collas says.
Those problems should go away with a planned addition, for which proposals received May 6 are now being evaluated. The project, one of several funded through the Public Safety Sales Tax approved by voters in 2001, is expected to cost about $2.2 million and get underway this summer. The expanded station is expected to o...
The Colorado Springs Fire Department dates to December 1872, when roughly 30 citizens organized as the volunteer Colorado Springs Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, even though it didn't have a ladder truck. The name was changed a few months later to the Colorado Springs Fire Company, and in May 1873 the company obtained i...
Two years later, the department added a hand-drawn, four-wheeled wagon with a half-dozen ladders. Several other volunteer companies were established later until City Council, in 1894, organized a paid department. In 1910 the city obtained its first motorized apparatus, a four-cylinder, 40-horsepower engine that cost ab...
The first Station 1 sat at 18 S. Nevada Ave. That building, after the new Station 1 was built a block away, became offices for Springs Utilities and now is known as the Gold Room, an event venue tied to the Mining Exchange Hotel.
Over its 91 years, Station 1 has been added onto and improved. "The most recent significant upgrade to it occurred in 2011 when we changed the battalion chief quarters upstairs to allow us to have room to build an adequate women's locker room and showers," Collas says.
A neighboring building served as fire headquarters before the Fire Department Operations Center, 375 Printers Parkway, opened in 2001.
"When I got there in 1994," says former chief Manny Navarro, "my office was in the top floor of that [Station 1's annex]. Actually it wasn't bad, but we didn't have enough room."
Station 1 on Weber Street.
The new headquarters incorporated the training division, formerly adjacent to Prospect Lake, and the fire prevention unit, housed in leased space on Cascade Avenue, he says.
During Navarro's 14 years in the department, Springs Fire added four stations — 17, 18, 19 and 20, all to the north and northeast.
Two more stations have been added in recent years: Station 21 in the northeast sector at 7320 Dublin Blvd., which opened in August 2013, and Station 22 on the far north side at 711 Copper Center Parkway, which opened in March.
Now the department has turned its attention to the city's core, where Fire Station 1, which hosts a ladder truck and an engine, has inspired much brainstorming over the years on whether to update it, replace it or move it, Collas says.
"Originally, we looked at moving the station," he says. "But with the age of the building, we ran into electrical issues and plumbing issues."
After architects took a close look at renovation, city officials decided to add two new bays with bigger spaces for fire apparatus and overhaul the existing station to meet building codes. "That will effectively do everything we want it to do," Collas says.
The existing bays, barely large enough to hold modern apparatus, will store firefighting equipment such as hoses, hand tools and air packs, as well as reserve apparatus. The old structure will get updated wiring, plumbing, heating, air condition and lighting.
A rendering of the addition.
From its beginning, Station 1 has been a workhorse, and that hasn't changed. In 2015, Station 1 firefighters answered 4,985 calls, trailing Station 7, at Academy and Palmer Park boulevards, which responded to 5,734 incidents; Station 4, the city's wildland fire station at 2280 Southgate Road, with 5,219, and Station 8,...
Once the downtown station expands to the north into a city-owned parking lot, it will still house an engine and ladder truck, each with a crew of four, along with a battalion chief, Collas said.
But it will do so with more ease. As Collas notes about the old station's bays, "They're just barely large enough. Since 1925 a lot of things have changed. The apparatus seem every year to get bigger. It maxes it out to put an aerial ladder in there."
The new addition will have drive-through bays, he says, "so those big apparatus aren't going to be stopping traffic and backing in on Weber. That's a big plus for us and the public."
In addition, Collas adds, "It's going to greatly improve the living conditions of our firefighters at one of our busiest stations. We're excited."
The renovated and expanded station will host the community and public health team, CSFD Cares, now based at the headquarters building. The unit monitors 911 calls for repeat callers and tries to address those callers' chronic health problems to reduce the demand for emergency runs.
Looking ahead, Collas says there's no firm timetable for adding a Station 23, which, as other stations have done, will follow population growth.
Colorado Springs' next fire station likely will be built in the vicinity of Banning Lewis Ranch on the city's east side.
He thinks there's a beer out there for everyone. She thinks he's nuts. We'll find out who's right in The Beer for Everyone Project. This week, Nicole tries a black and blue and three beers she picked out for herself.
This week, Nicole tried a medley of beers that she chose for herself, plus a "beer cocktail" suggested recently by guest podcaster Joy Richard. On the podcast, Norm and Nicole talk about the "crap tea" Norm is drinking at work; Norm's review of a few beers a colleague sent him from Widowmaker Brewing and Article Fiftee...
I write to draw your urgent attention to the rising tensions in Occupied East Jerusalem. The illegal actions and constant provocations and incitement by Israel, the occupying Power, including in particular by right-wing Israeli government officials, extremist settlers and religious zealots, against the Palestinian peop...
For two consecutive days, extremist Israelis escorted by occupying forces broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound (Al-Haram Al-Sharif), the third holiest site in Islam, in Occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli occupying forces injured and detained Palestinian worshippers, prevented the entry of Palestinian worshippers and instig...
In this volatile context, on Sunday morning, 13 September, in an act of incitement and attempt to breach the sanctity of Al-Haram Al-Sharif, right-wing Israeli Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel entered Al-Haram Al-Sharif, escorted by heavily armed Israeli occupying forces and more than 30 extremist Israeli settlers. Ag...
At the same time, we regret to inform you that illegal actions overtly intended to assert Israeli control over the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound also continue unabated, despite the calls and appeals against such actions. We firmly reject any provocative plans to spatially and temporally divide the compound. We reiterate the ...
In this context, we reiterate that all illegal Israeli actions at Al-Haram Al-Sharif and throughout the rest of Occupied East Jerusalem are in violation of the numerous relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions calling for a cessation of Israeli policies and measures aimed at altering the character, le...
The Security Council, in accordance with its primary Charter duty for the maintenance of international peace and security, must give urgent attention to these disturbing developments and must call for an end to all provocations and incitement at Al-Haram Al-Sharif in Occupied East Jerusalem and throughout the rest of O...
The present letter is in follow-up to our 552 previous letters regarding the ongoing crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, which constitutes the territory of the State of Palestine. Those letters, dated from 29 September 2000 (A/55/432-S/2000/921) to 11 September 2015 (A/ES-10/689-S/20...
Jeffery Sanders, a resident of MiWuk Village, passed away on Tuesday, December 5, at Sonora Regional Medical Center. No services are planned. Heuton Memorial Chapel is handling arrangements.
Editor’s Note: In testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor, David Caprara spoke to the effectiveness of international volunteering and how it is an essential element of the U.S. response to critical challenges at home and abroad.
Chairman Miller and Ranking Member McKeon, Members of the Education and Labor Committee: Thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony at today’s hearing on the vital topic of our national call to service. I am pleased to speak about the powerful work of volunteers serving through faith-based and community organiz...
I also applaud President Barack Obama for his signal leadership in making the cause of service a centerpiece of his presidency. His call to a new generation to give national and even global leadership in service to others has the potential to become a defining legacy of this Administration.
Expanding partnerships with neighborhood mediating institutions has proven to be an effective path in addressing many of the social difficulties we face as a country.
During my service at the Corporation for National and Community Service, I was tasked with leveling the playing field and advancing innovative service programs- VISTA, AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and Learn and Serve America. I often considered the insightful words of one of my mentors, Robert Woodson, founder and preside...
Woodson, who has been frequently called to testify about grassroots community remedies by the Congress and our nation’s governors, told me that faith-based initiatives are not about promoting a particular faith, but rather, advancing secular outcomes that faith-based and other grassroots groups are uniquely positioned ...
Volunteer efforts brought to bear by faith-based groups, since Tocqueville first noted our nation’s founding charitable traditions and social capital in the 19th century, have been immensely important throughout America history. In fact, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, more Americans volunteer through rel...
A CNCS Research and Policy Development report, entitled “Volunteer Management Capacity in America’s Charities and Congregations,” found that volunteers can boost both the quality of services and delivery capabilities in charities and congregations while reducing costs.
We could cite many examples of successful faith-based models, such as the Latino Pastoral Action Center of Rev. Ray Rivera in the Bronx, which has made great use of AmeriCorps volunteers in building community capacity. Southeast Idaho’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Initiative and the Columbus, Ohio, based Economic and ...
At the Corporation, we teamed up with HHS’ Administration for Children and Families in leveraging volunteer expertise with family strengthening, fatherhood and healthy marriage programs, and economic asset development with groups like People for People founded by Rev. Herb Lusk, the former Philadelphia Eagles “praying ...
I would like to touch more deeply upon two innovative program models – one, the Amachi Initiative, which utilizes CNCS volunteer resources, and another, the Violence Free Zone Initiative engaging former gang members and other forms of indigenous community volunteer capacity.
Researchers at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology have shown that children of prisoners are far more likely to become involved in crime in the future than children from other backgrounds. The Amachi program, founded by former Philadelphia Mayor Rev. Wilson Goode, provides this vulnerable cohort of young ...
Amachi, whose name in Africa means, “who knows what God will bring forth from this child,” began training faith-based organizations to play a key role in scaling up the program after its founding in Philadelphia in 2003, with the support of Big Brothers Big Sisters and area congregations. To date the initiative has enr...
The Amachi mentoring model, supported by AmeriCorps members who assist recruitment of community volunteers and form congregational mentoring hubs, has proven so effective that it was adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services as the basis of the federal Mentoring Children of Prisoners program. At the Corpor...
Robert Woodson’s Center for Neighborhood Enterprise has developed one of the most effective gang intervention programs in our country, by tapping indigenous community healing agents and volunteers from within crime-ridden neighborhoods. The Center reaches out to former gang members who have been transformed by faith, a...
In 1997, CNE stepped in after Darryl Hall, a twelve-year-old District boy, was shot and killed in a senseless gang war between the “Circle” and “Avenue” crews and others that had already left fifty young people dead in South East Washington, DC. In partnership with the Alliance of Concerned Men, many who were ex-offend...
Today CNE is expanding the reach of Violence Free Zones to cities across the country including Chicago, where a major spike in gang violence threatens to cut short the lives of our young people and their fellow neighborhood residents.
Baylor University researchers, who Woodson recently cited in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, documented the impact of the VFZ intervention model in six Milwaukee public schools where violent incidents were reduced by 32%. Suspension rates were also dramatically reduced, and student grade point averages ...
Dramatic decreases of violent incidents where CNE grassroots leaders intervened were also reported in Baltimore, Dallas, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C.
Congress, the Administration, and private foundations would be well served to advance dynamic linkages and partnerships with such effective grassroots, faith-based programs together with the volunteer power of the Corporation for National and Community Service and programs at the Departments of Education, Labor, and Ju...
I believe these initiatives represent “low-hanging fruit” if the new White House Council on Faith-Based and Community Partnerships wants to scale up such results-oriented models with expanded private sector and public support.
In addition to their unique quality of being deeply embedded in communities, faith-based organizations are usually much more nimble and innovative than governmental bureaucratic bodies. Take for instance the response to Hurricane Katrina. Groups like Lutheran Disaster Response, Islamic Relief USA, and the Points of Lig...
Our nations’ volunteers have also made great headway in promoting global solutions. Freedom from Terror polls have noted a marked drop in support for violent terrorism and a dramatic increase in positive views toward the United States in populous Muslim nations like Indonesia, Bangladesh and Pakistan following our nati...
According to a BLS assessment report by researchers with Washington University’s Center for Social Development, approximately 52% of global volunteers from America said their main volunteering organization was a religious one.
The International Volunteering Project at the Brookings Institution, launched at a forum with General Colin Powell nearly three years ago, has achieved solid gains in doubling a cohort from 50,000 to 100,000 international volunteers through the Building Bridges Coalition, comprised of more than 180 US-based internation...
Together with the national policy leadership of John Bridgeland and Senator Harris Wofford, who is here as an expert witness today, the Brookings volunteering team crafted a design for a new Global Service Fellowship initiative that would empower tens of thousands of new international service volunteers supported with ...
In the past year my travels have included visits to hot spots of Israel and Palestine, Kenya, the Philippines, Brazil and other nations supporting ongoing Global Peace Festival initiatives on each continent. Through these efforts I have witnessed first hand the tremendous power of interfaith partnerships and volunteeri...
In conclusion, faith-based and community volunteers are not only effective but they are an essential element of our nation’s response to critical challenges we face at home and abroad. Now is the time for our national leaders and the private sector to tap into their full potential in light of our massive challenges ahe...
I hope we can rally across party lines with this President to connect and support these groups in a force for good, as proven allies in the fight against poverty and disease, gang violence, environmental degradation and global conflict and disasters. Such an alliance would show the world the full potential of America’s...
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- The Coast Guard says a search of Lake Champlain for a vessel that had reportedly been struck by lightning came up empty.
The Burlington Free Press says officials at the Burlington station said late Thursday evening a search came up empty after covering 250 square miles with the help of three aircraft.
The Coast Guard launched the search after receiving a radio call from an unknown source.
A storm was moving through the area, but authorities have received no reports of lightning.
Taking part in the search were rescue boats and aircraft from the Coast Guard station in Burlington, the Colchester Police Department, and Customs and Border Protection in Plattsburgh, N.Y.
PHILADELPHIA — Because of traffic following President Obama’s speech at the Wells Fargo Arena, celebrity guests didn’t arrive at the red carpet of the Creative Coalition Gala featuring Fergie until nearly 1 a.m. The few attending reporters and photographers stared tiredly at each other while we waited, downing vodka Re...
“I’ve known Donald for 15, 17 years? I’m friends with someone who married into the family. Anyway, I would bump into him at the U.S. Open, for example, and I think I can say the amount of time he has spent looking at my chest rather than my face is proportional to his insanity and functionality,” she said.
So I guess we can add that to the list.
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Auburn wanted to pounce on Saint Peter’s early and did just that.
Anfernee McLemore and Bryce Brown each scored 19 points to lead No. 8 Auburn to a 99-49 rout of the Peacocks on Wednesday night.
The Tigers (6-1) scored the game’s first 13 points and led by as many as 32 before halftime over Saint Peter’s (1-5), which has lost five straight.
Auburn players watched film before tipoff of the first four minutes of the Peacocks’ game with North Carolina State, when Saint Peter’s held an early lead.
McLemore tied a career high in points and Auburn had five players score in double figures.
He hit three 3-pointers after making only two in the first six games.
The 6-foot-11 Wiley attempted his first career 3-pointer. Earlier, he hit a jump shot with his foot on the line.
Saint Peter’s made just 14 of 52 shots (26.9 percent) and committed 26 turnovers.
“They jumped out on us early and it is hard to come back from that,” Peacocks coach Shaheen Holloway said.
The Tigers just missed their third 100-point game this season in their first game since going 2-1 at the Maui Invitational. They made 15 of 31 3-pointers.
Saint Peter’s: Played its fourth straight road game, including the 85-57 loss to North Carolina State. The Peacocks started 2 of 18 from the field and fell to 3-7 against Southeastern Conference teams.
Auburn: The Tigers didn’t allow a field goal in the first seven minutes and led 51-23 at halftime after a one-week break from games following the Maui trip.
Auburn had 25 assists, 16 steals and eight blocked shots. Jared Harper dished out eight assists and had three steals.
Backup point guard J’Von McCormick tweaked an ankle during the game. Pearl switched Samir Doughty to that position and Doughty had five assists.
“It was good to get him out there because we’ve got to develop a little depth at the position,” Pearl said.
Saint Peter’s hosts Maine on Saturday in its first home game since Nov. 10.
Auburn hosts UNC Asheville next Tuesday.
Top seed Novak Djokovic avenged his French Open final loss to Stan Wawrinka by crushing the Swiss 6-4 6-1 to reach the semi-finals of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati.
Djokovic, now two wins away from becoming the first player to win all nine ATP Masters titles, needed a mere 63 minutes to dispatch fifth seed Wawrinka in the first meeting between the two players since Roland Garros.
Wawrinka, who denied Djokovic a chance to complete a career grand slam in Paris, pushed a backhand wide on match point and finished with 33 unforced errors, more than double that of his in-form opponent.
Djokovic, a four-times runner-up in Cincinnati, broke Wawrinka's serve four times and dropped just 12 points on serve in his final tune-up event ahead of the US Open in New York.
Up next for the world number one will be Ukrainian qualifier Alexandr Dolgopolov, a 6-4 6-2 winner over Czech sixth seed Tomas Berdych.
In other quarter-final action on Friday, defending champion Roger Federer will face unseeded Spaniard Feliciano Lopez while third seed Andy Murray will battle 12th seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet.
In the women's draw, top-seed Serena Williams recovered from a set down to beat Ana Ivanovic 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.
An unfortunate sports crossover resulted in two stars being handcuffed after an NFL player and NBA player were arrested Saturday following a fight outside a Washington D.C. nightclub, police said.
Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Jalen Mills and Washington Wizards forward Devin Robinson were involved in a “verbal altercation which escalated into a physical altercation on the sidewalk adjacent to the Opera Night Club,” the Associated Press reported, citing a police report.
Mills and Robinson were charged with disorderly affray.
Robinson was hospitalized after the incident. The Wizards then announced they wouldn’t be extending a qualifying offer to Robison, stemming from the incident.

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