Reduced to rubble: Historic Fire Station No. 5 demolished
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Photo: Jacksonville Fire and Rescue DepartmentPhoto: Jacksonville Fire and Rescue DepartmentPhoto: Jacksonville Fire and Rescue DepartmentPhoto: Jacksonville Fire and Rescue DepartmentPhoto posted by the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department with the caption: "Sad day for the JFRD, but even harder on those stationed at old No.5. Ret. Cpt. Phil Pfarr looks on in dismay, then works his way through the rubble to salvage a brick or 2, joined by ret. Chief Larry Mays & Chief Robin Gainey. They were all stationed there."Photo: Jacksonville Fire and Rescue DepartmentPhoto: Jacksonville Fire and Rescue DepartmentPhoto: Jacksonville Fire and Rescue DepartmentPhoto: Jacksonville Historical SocietyView of what's left of First Station 5 from office building next door.No description foundNo description foundNo description foundNo description foundNo description foundNo description foundNo description found
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Photo: Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Despite the last-ditch efforts of a Change.Org petition to save a historic Riverside fire station, the building was demolished and reduced to a pile of rubble on Saturday.
As first reported by the Florida Times Union, it took about 110 minutes for a demolition crew to tear down the 110-year-old former Fire Station on Riverside Avenue.
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The petition, which had more than 3,000 signatures, asked the city or FIS -- the company that bought the land -- to move the building to a city-owned property within the Urban Core.
It didn’t happen.
Additionally, there were no bids to rescue the station. It was demolished to make way for a road alignments for the new FIS headquarters.
The brick building was constructed on Riverside Avenue in 1910. It spent 98 years as an active firehouse.
Photo: Jacksonville Historical Society
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