Creech heats up

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  • By Senior Airman Adarius Petty
  • 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs
CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada --  The quality of support at Creech Air Force Base recently got a boost when the Nellis-Creech Fire Emergency Services Flight received a new home here.

Fire Station 6 officially opened during a ribbon cutting ceremony March 4, 2015 followed by a walk-through demonstration of the facility's several new capabilities.

"Fire house 6 adds facility and aircraft fire-rescue, emergency medical service, hazardous material and technical rescue emergency mitigation," said Robert Ward, fire department assistant chief. "It will enhance facility fire inspections; community fire safety awareness and education."

The former facility was a military family housing unit that had been converted to offices, meaning the staff had minimal space to conduct business. The relocation, however, will provide fire department management personnel and fire inspectors increased office space and storage areas for vehicles and other equipment. This enhancement only came to fulfillment through the supportive efforts of several units at Creech and Nellis Air Force Bases.

"We would like to express our deeply-felt gratitude to personnel in the local U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office, to facility construction project managers in both the 99th Civil Engineer Squadron and 799th Air Base Squadron and , to our Nellis-Creech firefighters who assisted in Fire House bed down operations," said Ward.

The new $8.3 million, 19,000 square foot fire house provides a location for fire trucks and firefighters to quickly respond to the growing northern portion of the base's airfield. The new facility will keep the mission in line with Department of Defense emergency time and distance response mandates, where response time is most often the critical factor in successful emergency mitigation.