Los Angeles city, airport and fire officials dedicated a new fire station Monday morning at LAX.
The new Fire Station 80 replaces a 25-year-old facility, now too small to fit today's fire trucks. It's also in a new spot to make way for the expansion of LAX's Tom Bradley International Terminal.
The new station is double the size; fits seven rescue and emergency response vehicles; it costs 13-and-a-half million dollars to build, most of which were federal stimulus dollars; and it's situated on the LAX airfield between the north and south runways.
Los Angeles Fire Chief Millage Peaks says that'll allow the 14 firefighters assigned to each 24-hour shift here to respond to an emergency on a runway within three minutes.
