AUSTIN, Texas — As Austin changes to meet growth, the city is modernizing public safety facilities.
The city celebrated the grand reopening of Fire Station 22 and EMS Station 12 on Saturday.
It’s located on East Riverside Drive near Pleasant Valley Road and serves the residents of southeast Austin.
The Austin-Travis County EMS chief said that's one of the busiest parts of town. He said the station was due for a big renovation.
"This station was more than 50 years old with all sorts of infrastructure issues that we needed to deal with," said Chief Robert Luckritz. "And so we tore this entire station down, started from the ground up, and now we have this wonderful, state-of-the-art 15,000-square-foot facility that our Austin-Travis County medics and our awesome firefighters will be able to use for decades to come."
Similar renovation projects are happening at five other EMS stations across the city. They should wrap later this year.
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