VIDEO: A needed upgrade could be on the way for the Gallatin Fire Department. The city is looking to finalize plans for a new fire headquarters and training facility in a different location, which would replace their current Station 1/HQ that opened back in 1975.
In recent years, Gallatin city officials have become concerned with the station’s worsening infrastructure, mainly the plumbing.
“As the Chief likes to say, they are one flush away from shutting down,” said Rosemary Bates, Executive Director for Gallatin’s Economic Development Agency (EDA). “They do, truly, have a contingency plan if, for some reason, the sanitary/sewer fails. They have a plan in place to be able to relocate to other fire departments.”
Since Gallatin Fire’s current HQ opened 50 years ago, the city’s population has more than tripled in size. Bates said the department has simply outgrown the aging building.
