Plans are moving along on a project that will see the construction of a new fire station in south central Colorado.
The Peyton Fire Protection District serves the unincorporated town of Peyton, a place of around 200 people, as well as residents of several nearby towns in eastern El Paso County in a coverage area that encompasses around 110 square miles.
Altogether, the district currently serves an estimated 1,400 households.
With a four-bay station located at 13665 Railroad Street that is operated by a full-time deputy chief and supported by a staff of 17 volunteers, the district has long contemplated the need for a new station.
That project has now taken a step forward with a vote by the El Paso County Commission approving a zoning exemption for the site of the new station. According to published sources, the planned facility will be built to house an underground cistern with a 30,000-gallon capacity.
The station will go up on a 2.5-acre site near the intersection of Bradshaw Road and Sweet Road in Peyton, in an area that is made up of vacant parcels of land as well as some single-family housing.
According to county documents, the new facility will be built in order to “decrease emergency response times in the area.”
The facility, note those documents, will take the form of a pole barn that will house a fire truck as well as the cistern.
An exact construction schedule for the new station has not yet been announced.
The Peyton Fire Protection District was formed in 1954 after the town’s only schoolhouse burned to the ground.
By Garry Boulard
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