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New Callaway Public Safety Building
10/30/09 - 05:20 PM
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Callaway, Fla:

Firefighters, police and other emergency personnel are now under one roof in Callaway.

The city celebrates the opening of a new combined Public Safety building today.

City officials say the police and fire departments were operating out of a building constructed in the 60s that no longer met current building codes, including hurricane requirements so it was unsafe to use as a shelter for police and fire rescue employees in the event of a major storm or hurricane.

The facility was made possible by funding of a $2.1 million through Rural Development’s First Responder Initiative, about $300,000 from the City of Callaway and a little over three acres of land.

”The big thing is the facility is new, it’s all up-to-date,” says Callaway Mayor Ken Meer. “We do have both fire department and law enforcement in the same building and I think we’ve got a better location but our response time is still going to be five minutes to anywhere in the city.”

The mayor says the new building will also help improve ISO ratings and insurance rates and includes bays for fire engines and EMS vehicles as well as administrative offices for the fire and police departments.

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