Firefighters are preparing to move into a new station in Beatrice, and gave the public a glimpse inside the new building Saturday. An open house event was held at Beatrice Fire and Rescue’s new station on South Sixth Street, which is nearly complete. Around 200 people attended the ceremony in the apparatus bay, which is around 10,000 square feet larger than the one in the current station at the Beatrice City Auditorium. The sales tax will be removed once the station is paid off in around 10 years. Officials began to reexamine the possibility of building a new station again in 2014, and broke ground on the new station on South Sixth Street last spring.

Source: Daily Sun October 23, 2021 16:55 UTC