New fire station is moving forward
By Terry Murry on Tuesday, September 13th, 2022 in Columbia Basin News More Top Stories
WESTON – A ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony has been held for East Umatilla Fire & Rescue’s new station in Weston. However, construction has not yet begun in earnest. Chief Dave Baty says that before that happens, attention is being given to all of the details.
“They have finished the design and development phase and right now they’re in the systems development stage,” he said. We’re probably going to be able to move into that station in about 11 months – maybe next July or next August.”
Baty said he learned quickly that having the funding to pay for a new fire station is just the first step in a long process.
“What we may not have realized is that this is a tremendous amount of work,” Baty said. “In order to do this correctly and legally, we’ve had to go through all these steps.” The general contractor is McCormack Construction, and the Wenaha Group is managing the project. Baty expects construction work to begin in January or February
