By Jessica Micallef
A new Carlsruhe CFA station is a step closer.
Carlsruhe CFA captain Peter Baldwin said land has been purchased for a new station to be built on Cobb and Co Road.
Mr Baldwin said the new station was still in the planning stages and the CFA was in discussions with the council.
The state government last month announced $600,000 in funding to provide the Carlsruhe CFA with a new home.
The funds were allocated in the 2019-20 state budget. The CFA has contributed a further $60,000 and the Carlsruhe CFA has chipped in $80,000.
The station will include a three-bay motor room, male and female toilets, a multi-purpose room, on-site carparking and a dedicated truck turning area.
“It’s a completely new station,” Mr Baldwin said.
“Our old shed has well and truly been outgrown – it was put up in the early 1980s.
“The new station will allow for future growth of the brigade and will improve operational capability.
“The new meeting room facilities will also provide a central location for training, meetings and local community events.
“Before, we were operating out of a two-bay shed basically and it was on the crest of a hill so not the safest place for the trucks to be turning in and out of.”
Mr Baldwin said brigade members had organised many fundraising events to provide $80,000 to the project, which will go towards the construction of the third bay.
“That has been done through many barbecues. We hold a fair once a year,” he said.
The station is expected to be in operation by the middle of next year.
