VIDEO: The Dexter Fire Department celebrated its ‘Last Station’ project with a ribbon cutting Sunday.
The ‘Last Station’ is a miniature museum next to the Dexter Historical Society, dedicated to the history of the fire department.
It’s the final home for the department’s historic 1929 Brockway fire engine, the turnout gear work by Dexter’s first female firefighter and a plaque dedicated to the men and women who gave their lives for the Dexter Fire Department.
“It’s gonna be the last place that these pieces of apparatus are stored so we are calling it the Last Station,” said Gerry Kostyk, chairman of the project. It took more than five years to raise the money and build the station. The project started in 2019 and ended up exceeding its goal, by raising $145,000.
As Kostyk explained, one firefighter and two words gave the project its start.