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COMMUNITY
Fire department plans to
upgrade facilities
BY DAN WHOM?
danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net
Buckhead is due for several upgrades
to its fire and rescue facilities according
to a list of projects the city of Atlanta
adopted in October.
The Atlanta Fire Rescue Depart
ment’s capital improvement plan in
cludes $17.8 million worth of fire sta
tion upgrades for Fire Battalion 6, the
area that covers Buckhead. All of the
upgrades are planned for City Coun
cil District 8, represented by Council-
woman Yolanda Adrean.
Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran
recently updated residents about sever
al projects in the works, including one
to replace a facility that the community
raised money to fix.
Cochran on Feb. 7 told the Buck-
head Council of Neighborhoods about
the fire department’s plans to replace
older buildings. Fire Station 27, lo
cated on Northside Drive North
west in Buckhead, was constructed in
the 1950s. In 2008, neighbors raised
$250,000 to improve the firefighters’
living quarters.
Cochran said the department will
propose a replacement in 2017. ITe said
the department is considering delaying
the replacement because of the renova
tions, but that could be harmful to the
community in the long run.
“We’ve got a few years to really
wrestle with that, but I don’t think we
should wait until we get it funded to
have the conversation,” Cochran said.
Adrean attended the Feb. 7 meeting
and said when the neighborhood began
raising the money the improvements
were about 10 years off.
“We didn’t want firefighters to wait
that many years to live in clearly sub
standard conditions,” Adrean said. “It
bought some time and we are all very
attached.”
The estimated cost of replacing Fire
Station 27 is $4.95 million, according
to the city’s projects list.
Cochran also discussed plans to
build a new fire station near Peachtree
Battle Avenue in Fiscal Year 2016. The
anticipated cost of that project is $4.95
million.
“We need a fire station in that loca
tion desperately,” Cochran said.
Other projects on the list are:
- Replacing Fire Station 26 at 2970
Howell Mill Road, NW. Cost: $4.14
million. Project description describes
the facility’s current condition as
“poor.”
- Replacing Fire Station 23 at 1545
Howell Mill Road, NE. Cost: $3.78
million. “This facility is too old and
small to function as a fire station,” the
project description says.
Prosecutors looking for signs
of gangs in Buckhead
BY CHOCK STANLEY
The Fulton County District Attorney’s
Office is showing concern about possi
ble gang activity in Buckhead following
complaints from residents about increased
graffiti throughout the community.
Zone 2 Community Prosecutor Tif
fany Harlow told the March 5 meeting
of Buckhead’s NPU-B that prosecutors
are working on a fledgling gang initia
tive to establish whether criminal gangs
may be operating in the community.
“Some [of the graffiti] may be affil
iated with gangs, some may not,” Har
low told NPU-B board members. “But
we are going to be looking at that.”
Harlow said prosecutors have reached
out to Atlanta’s high school students for
feedback on the prevalence of gang ac
tivity amongst area teens.
The DA’s office hopes to put together
a council to facilitate continuous com
munication about gang activities in At
lanta’s schools, she said. The group will
be named for a Chicago honor student
who was killed in a gang shooting in
January.
SPECIAL
Tiffany Harlow, Fulton
County DA’s office
“We are trying to start a council,” she
said, “to get kids who are doing well in
school and aren’t targets for gangs to go
and speak with their fellow classmates,
to keep them protected from gang vio
lence.”
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