The Dickson Fire Department will celebrate the first anniversary of opening its newest station with a ribbon-cutting and open house Tuesday, Dec. 10.
The Dickson County Chamber will conduct a ribbon-cutting at 11:00 am and the open house will be 11:00 am-1:00 pm at Dickson Fire Department Station #3, 2579 Highway 70 East, between the entrance to GreyStone Golf Club and Ridgecrest Drive. WDKN1260AM and 101.5-FM The Ride will broadcast “The Power Lunch” from the station 11:30 am-12:30 pm.
The public is invited to tour the new fire station, meet the firefighters who staff it and enjoy refreshments from Boardable 615.
Dickson Fire Department Station #3 became operational at 11:15 am Nov. 27, 2023, with a full-time crew of four firefighter/EMTs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The crew conducted a traditional “push-in” ceremony by pushing Unit 133 into one of the bays of the new station. The “push-in” tradition dates back to when fire departments used horse-drawn wagons. After returning from fighting a fire, the firefighters had to unhitch the horses and push the wagons back into the fire hall.
In its first year of operation, Station #3 responded to 21 percent of the calls for assistance received by the Dickson Fire Department. The station responded to 388 total incidents, including four fires, 285 emergency medical calls and 99 miscellaneous calls, according to DFD statistics. All City of Dickson firefighters are required to be certified as Emergency Medical Technicians and the department responds to any call for medical assistance in its service area, including automobile wrecks involving injuries.
The City purchased 2.8 acres on the corner of Highway 70 East and Ridgecrest Drive for $87,500 in August 2019. TMPartners was chosen to design the 10,000-square-foot fire station and Boger Construction was the primary contractor for the $5.2 million investment.
“The City faced several hurdles in completing a fire station project that began right as a worldwide pandemic impacted every aspect of construction,” Mayor Don L. Weiss Jr. said when the station opened. “We overcame those challenges and now have a fully equipped, modern fire station that blends with the residential neighborhood along one of the busiest roads in the city.”
The city’s goal in building Station #3 was to improve response capabilities to fire and emergency medical calls on the eastern side of the city and to the William D. Field-Dickson County Industrial Park. Opened in 1991, Station #2 on Pringle Drive in Pomona is staffed with five firefighters and Station #1 on Church Street that opened in 1964 is staffed with seven firefighters around the clock plus administrative staff.
Currently the city is starting the process of replacing Station #2. Mayor Weiss recently announced that The Jackson Foundation has agreed to donate property in Renaissance Park on Marshall Stuart Drive to be the site of a new Station #2 and a fire training facility.
“This station will enable the city to continue providing firefighting and emergency medical responses to the industrial park, to I-40, to the southern end of the city, and along Highway 46, the busiest road in Dickson County with an average daily traffic count over 30,000 vehicles, according to TDOT,” Mayor Weiss said in his annual address to the Dickson County Chamber. “Not only are we planning a new fire station on the site, but we also want to build a training facility that will enable us to train our own firefighters instead of having to send them to other departments and we’ll be able to provide training for other fire departments. We cannot thank Doug Jackson and the board of The Jackson Foundation enough for their generosity.”
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