The fire department has two aerial trucks and three engines. It became apparent both locations could be staffed full-time with existing staff. There are no plans to hire more personnel or purchase additional firefighting equipment.ĭuring the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the firefighters were split between the two facilities to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 among the first responders. Total project cost is estimated to be $5.5 million. A portion of the city's share of that tax is already being used for quality of life projects. The project will be funded by the 1/4 cent county sales tax approved by voters in 2020 for improving emergency services, with the city of Hays receiving approximately $700,000 to $900,000 in annual revenue for a period of 10 years. And it looks like the future is about to commence," Hagans said with a smile. So the city bought it a few years ago (in 2016) to protect the water well and with the intention of building a fire station there in the future. "One of our water production wells sits on that property. "Downtown there's stop sign after stop sign, stop, start, speed up, slow down. We'd be using major arterial streets," Hagans pointed out. The second fire station would be built at 41st Street and Post Road on city-owned land. 41st, just east of the Highway 183 bypass, on land already owned by the city. The proposed station would be built at 1732 W. Owners would have to check with their insurance agents.
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"We're doing really well with our response time," Hagans said, "but with the outer reaches of the community, the response times are going to get longer, especially up in that area of town."Īccording to Hagans, the city of Hays Fire Department is an ISO PPC 2 (Property Protection Classification), putting it in the top 2% in Kansas and the top 4.8% in the United States.Īnother fire station in northwest Hays would enhance the city's ISO fire rating and could result in lower insurance rates for property owners, although the city has no control over that. It's a Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) facility required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The fire station in downtown Hays, opened in 1974 at 1507 Main, is further than 1.5 miles from the new development in the northwest part of the city. The city's other fire station, built in 2010, is at the Hays Regional Airport and is staffed only during commercial aviation operations. The average response time in Hays by the fire department is currently 4.5 minutes. To keep response times short, the federal ISO (Insurance Services Office) recommends a local fire station be no more than 1.5 road miles from any area of the city. The current response time to a fire emergency in Hays, from dispatch to arrival on scene, averages 4.5 minutes. We can get a fire truck on scene in a real emergency, quicker, so we can go to work and help save property and lives."
"We can get our equipment spread out and hopefully have a better response time to different areas of town. Garden City is looking at building their third station. "You look at other towns our size, Dodge City, they have two stations.
"It's just time," Hagans said during the come and go event at Thirsty's The Venue. The other factor kicking the proposed project into high gear is growth, residential and commercial, in northwest Hays. Now that the city has an additional revenue stream through its share of the Ellis County sales tax, plans have finally come together and were shown to the public during an open house Wednesday night. It's actually been discussed since the 1990s, with different locations considered, according to city staff research. Chief Ryan Hagans knows that because it's how long he's been with the fire department. The city of Hays has been considering the need for another fire station for at least the past 18 years. 41st for faster emergency response times to the expanding growth in the northwest part of the city. Ryan Hagans, Hays fire chief, talks during an open house Wednesday night about the plan for a second fire station.
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