PHOTOS: Anyone who’s been to a groundbreaking ceremony can tell you the actual groundbreaking is usually no more exciting than the speeches that lead up to it. Not so with last week’s groundbreaking for the new Fire Station No. 1. Not a lightweight dirt-tossing shovel in site. Instead a fire erupted in the center of the ceremonial mound of dirt, purposely ignited by remotely controlled propane gas. “It was a propane gas fire controlled by a valve,” explained Fire Chief Dru Driscoll. “The fire was ignited by an extended lighter. Cunningham Oil Company ignited and controlled the fire.”
