"It's built for the future," explained Ventura County Fire Chief Dustin Gardner, on the county's new Fire Station 34. "The area is getting denser, our population is getting older, our call volume continues to increase about 6% a year."
The original station nearby was home to Ventura County’s busiest fire engine station, but the building was 60 years old and needed modernization.
"It was built for fire engines six decades ago," Gardner said. "It was too small...these new fire trucks, it was too small to house them, and it was on the corner of a busy intersection where our crews had to stop traffic up to 20 times a day to back the engines into the station. It was just not in a good spot. This new station is much safer for our firefighters."
The new station is in Thousand Oaks near the intersection of Moorpark and Avenida de los Arboles.
