BY RACHEL LELAND
League City’s fire stations
The condition
League City boundaries * Has a minimum of three firefighters staffed during the daytime Undeveloped land
The contract signed between the League City Volunteer Fire Department Inc. and the city mandated that two of the city’s six fire stations have fully staffed engines with volunteers. One is located at Fire Station 2, and the other at Fire Station 6, with a minimum of three fire- fighters staffed during the daytime, Lugo said. In the event of a structure fire, those two engines will respond first, and available volunteers will be notified and report to the nearest of the city’s six fire stations to support if they can, Lugo said. This allows for quicker responses to fires. “To get from the far east side to deep west if there’s a house fire, … that’s a long time depend- ing on the route you have to go,” Lugo said. As League City moves toward developing its unused land, the city is looking closely at increasing its number of fire stations to fill in the gaps and service in newly developed areas, city officials said.
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1 Station 1 2 Fire and EMS Station 2*
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3 Station 3 4 Station 4 5 Station 5 6 Station 6*
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W. LEAGUE CITY PKWY.
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NOTE: UNDEVELOPED PORTION OF MAP IS MOSTLY UNUSED LAND BUT CONTAINS SOME NEIGHBORHOODS. SOURCE: CITY OF LEAGUE CITY/COMMUNITY IMPACT
Looking ahead
In their own words
As League City continues to grow, the city is considering adding at least two more fire stations, which could cost between $10.6 million and $12 million to build, according to the fire department. “Once we pick a site, it’s ... [three] years to design and construct and to get a station up,” City Manager John Baumgartner said.
“Because League City itself is so diverse, ... we have everything from blue-collar
“A lot of people don’t even realize that … we’re a volunteer department, and kind of the correlation with that is how
workers that are volunteers to literally NASA scientists, rocket scientists, business owners and project managers.” DANIEL GIBBS, 21-YEAR LEAGUE CITY FIREFIGHTER
much money the city saves in taxes by not having to pay us full-time salaries and bene ts.” KEVIN MATTLER, FIVE-YEAR LEAGUE CITY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER
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