After nearly 70 years, Cal Fire's Butte Unit Headquarters on the corner of Nelson Ave and Del Oro Ave in Oroville is coming down, and will be replaced by a new facility, according to Cal Fire officials.
The facilities that are to come will be a far cry from the old buildings that Oroville residents may remember.
Cal Fire Battalion Chief Russ Fowler said the upgrade is long overdue.
"It'd become obsolete. Our fire engines no longer fit in the fire station without doing some significant changes to make them fit," Fowler said. "So it's just, holding the facility together with a band-aid is pretty much what we were doing."
Cal Fire has owned the land there since the 1940s, and will continue to do so after the renovation project. There's only one building still standing on the premises, but that too will be knocked down to make room for the new ones.