Campo Fire is one of the few Volunteer / Rural Departments with overnight accommodations for their firefighters. The San Diego Board of Supervisors granted Campo Fire the use of the original fire department residence house. When the fire station was originally built in the 40's this attached house was the quarters for the military fire department. Thanks to the efforts of our Supervisor Diane Jacob, the house has once again been returned to fire department use.
As you enter the house from the truck bays the first room on the right is a bedroom. The firefighters have ripped off the old paneling, installed insulation and are seen here putting in new drywall.
Below, as you continue you enter the living room. Again, insulation and drywall. Most of us are voting to re-finish the original oak flooring. ( window view below is over the porch.)
The center doorway in the photo above leads to the old kitchen. ( The one on the left goes to the porch you see in the outside photo above. ) Since we recently re-modeled our existing kitchen this old one will be used as our office, computer and radio room.
Also, off the kitchen is a small, enclosed, back porch.
This area has been setup as the community communications center and equipped with HAM and community 2-way radios to support our Mountain Empire Disaster Committee and CERT Teams.
Off the living room are 2 more bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a laundry room. The first bedroom is shown below
If you look behind the 2x4's you
can see the original
1940's kitchen walls. With volunteer help we are in the
process of bringing the kitchen up to date, from the walls
up so to speak.
January 2004 Getting closer Every Day !
The drywall crew
February 2004 - Finished Great work by All
The Fence
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February 2 2003. Volunteers, Firemen and the Board Chair pitch in to build a new fence to hide some of our clutter. The word is we are going to park a rig back there but things don't move real fast around here.
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