Officials Defend Decision On Fire Station

May 12, 2007 Virginia - In the fall of 2005, then-Vice Mayor Bev Fitzpatrick told a crowd of worried city residents the council had reached a consensus that Fire Station No. 1 in downtown Roanoke would not be affected by plans to build a new Fire-EMS Headquarters station on Franklin Road. Fitzpatrick said the plans for a new building had been "totally disengaged from No. 1. No. 1 is no longer in the equation. No. 1 will continue to operate as it has." But somehow, over the next 19 months, the consensus ...