Fire Facilities and Emergency Response Levy Program

In November of 2003, 69% of people voting in Seattle approved the Fire Facilities and Emergency Response Levy. Over a nine-year period this program, which started in 2004, will use levy proceeds and other funding to:

• upgrade, renovate, or replace 32 neighborhood fire stations;
• construct a new training facility and a new Fire Alarm Center;
• establish emergency preparedness facilities and disaster response equipment that includes a modern, seismically safe Emergency Operations Center, emergency community supplies, emergency shelter power generators, and emergency water supply capacity for fire fighting in the event the City's fire hydrants are disabled;
• and build a new large fire boat, a new small fire boat, and renovate the Chief Seattle fireboat.

Mayor Nickels dedicates Fire Station 28 in Rainier Valley on December 5, 2009. Over the decades, firefighters had outgrown the old station. The new facility provides adequate space for modern firefighting equipment and operations.