The Beach Reporter - Fire Station No. 2 is now open

After more than 20 years in the works, El Segundo residents and city officials enthusiastically welcomed the completion of a new Fire Station No. 2.

Complete with a shiny new fire pole and flat-screen TVs, El Segundo Fire Station No. 2 is bigger, better and greener than its previous building, which was constructed in the mid-1950s.

City Councilman Carl Jacobson said during the opening-day ceremony last Wednesday, Dec. 16, that he remembers when he first took office in 1983 they were talking about the need for a new Fire Station No. 2.

For several years, it had been understood that Fire Station No. 2 was seismically at risk and did not have the proper facilities for mixed-gender employees. According to the renderings, the new fire station is 13,600 square feet, which is more than twice the size of the previous station, which is 5,800 square feet.

The new fire station at Mariposa and Nash. (photo by Chris Miller)
“It is magnificent,” El Segundo Mayor Kelly McDowell said of the new station. “It has a lot more room for the firefighters and the equipment, it can easily house a dozen firefighters.”

The $7.5 million station is located at the corner of Mariposa Avenue and Nash Street. The piece of property where it is housed was donated to the city two years ago from Thomas Properties, the developers of Plaza El Segundo. The money for the station was taken from the Capital Improvement Budget, which has been budgeting funds for the Fire Station since 1998. The old station is located at El Segundo Boulevard and Nash Street and according to McDowell, the station’s property will be sold or leased off and its profits will be used to offset construction costs for the facility’s replacement.

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