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Broomall’s New Firehouse A Modern Update Borrowed from the Past! Written by Holly Stupak
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roviding the community with the very best in emergency services and keeping its citizens safe has always been the #1 priority of the Broomall Fire Company. The new firehouse, the third in Broomall’s history, was built with safety and efficiency in mind. It was also designed for the future, but with a nod to the past.
On November 2, 2019, Broomall Fire Company (BFC) members held a dedication ceremony, to give the public a glimpse of the new state-of-the-art facility. Designed by the Bernardon architecture firm, the firehouse is a 22,000-sf stone building with a cupola on top as its centerpiece. It contains a “museum,” which includes a 1948 Mack fire truck, an old locker with vintage fire gear, and lots of memorabilia. The facade of the firehouse was designed to resemble and preserve the essence of the original station and to give it added character. Paul Andrew Sgroi, a Principal of Bernardon, plans to submit the Broomall Fire Company for Firehouse magazine’s 2020 Station Design Award program, which recognizes station designs that contribute greatly to the well-being of the responders and encourage interaction with the community. The Broomall Fire Company was founded in 1923 and, in 1924, its members donated their own skills and talent to build the original Broomall Firehouse, a two-story stone building on West Chester Pike (now Drexel Hill Style Pizza). As apparatus and equipment needs increased in the 1950s, more space was needed,
Engaging Broomall Fire Station history in the new station design Photo by Don Pearse Photographers, Inc.
so in November 1957, a new firehouse was built on Malin Road at West Chester Pike. For the past 20 years, the Broomall Fire Company has needed to increase the size of the firehouse again, to accommodate more modern fire equipment and more fire trucks. With only one bathroom in the old station, there was a real need to add more facilities
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