{"id":3164,"date":"2008-08-28T09:47:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T16:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2008-08-28T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T17:10:43","slug":"pole-position-the-5-million-fire-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3164","title":{"rendered":"Pole Position: The $5 Million Fire Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly 20 years in a &#8220;temporary&#8221; double-wide firestation the Carlsbad Fire Department has finally moved into their new 6,200-square-foot facility on Rancho Santa Fe Road. And the coolest part: this station has a fire pole, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080828-9999-1mc28carls.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Most Southern California stations are one story,&#8221; so they don&#8217;t need fire poles, said Carlsbad Battalion Chief <strong>Jim Torretto<\/strong>, who oversees facilities for the city Fire Department. . . . He said that despite the pole, there won&#8217;t be any scenes of firefighters jumping out of bed at the sound of an alarm, diving into turnout gear and sliding down the pole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re glad they have the station they need, and we&#8217;re pretty sure those clever firemen will find at least one good use for that fire pole. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080828-9999-1mc28carls.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly 20 years in a &#8220;temporary&#8221; double-wide firestation the Carlsbad Fire Department has finally moved into their new 6,200-square-foot facility on Rancho Santa Fe Road. And the coolest part: this station has a fire pole, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. &#8220;Most Southern California stations are one story,&#8221; so they don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}