2 New Fire Hall Opens

Yesterday, the Town along with our Regional and Provincial partners opened not 1 but 2 new Fire stations. One of the stations house a new Halton Region EMS station.
The funding for the station was divided between Halton Hills (6.4 Million), the Province of Ontario (1.9M) and Halton Region (1.1M). Halton Hills Hydro provided funding for the Geothermal system.

Our Chief Brent Marshall acted as the MC and welcomed, Mayor Bonnette, Chair Carr, Ted Arnott MPP and almost all members of Council to this historic event. The Chief of Police, Deputy Chief, members of other Fire and EMS services and of course our retired and Life members of the Fire Department all were in attendence.


The new buildings replace 2 old buildings here in the Town and have our fire department positioned well to the future. The EMS building was in fact the old Fire station on Chapel Street. The Headquarters was the old public works building that the Fire Department moved into almost 30 years ago as a “temporary site”

The Headquarters station built in Georgetown South will give all residents a piece of mind as it is located in the heart of the future growth area in the Town. This station features a “Heritage Room” which has displays of Fire Department memorabilia.as well as a 1942 restored Fire Truck. As is the case of all Fire Departments, that history always plays an important part of the daily lives of all Firefighters. They always acknowledge those who bravely put their lives on the line before them. Firefighter Al Scott deserves credit for doing a lot of research on the Fire Department.

Both the buildings were built to a minimum LEEDS Silver designation using such energy saving features as the geothermal heating, rain water harvesting, recycled materials and construction standards.

One of the highlights of the day was when former Fire Fighter Jimmy Valentine was recognized for his 42 years with the Fire Department in Georgetown. He started with the Georgetown Fire Dept in 1938 and served until 1980. A lane from the rear of the Station has been named “Valentine Lane” in his honour. At 97 Mr Valentine is still active fixing small engines and lawnmowers.


The Chief, Deputy Chiefs and staff deserve credit for working so hard to keep this project on track and budget. We had issues along the way but we have 2 buildings that will serve our community for many years.. Our Fire and Emergency Services Committee Chaired by Councillor Moya Johnson did a tremendous job of working through the problems that came up during the building of 2 stations at the same time.


The public are invited to a Community Open House planned for Sunday Oct 3 2010 from 1 to 4 at the Maple Street Station. It will be the kickoff to Fire Prevention Week.