By Mike Kinney
The new, state-of-the-art fire station on 23rd Street in San Pablo is set to begin functioning with fire personnel on Monday, April 19, and will have a four-person ladder truck crew and three-person engine crew operating there this summer, according to Contra Costa Fire Protection District (ConFire) officials.
On Tuesday, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the newly-completed, $14 million Fire Station 70 at 23rd and Market streets.
The long-awaited two-story station was funded by a partnership between ConFire and the City of San Pablo in order to replace an inadequate station at 13228 San Pablo Ave., which operates out of modular buildings that were installed in 1992 after the permanent station was damaged by the Loma Prieta earthquake.