Land cleared for $30M replacement fire hall in Fleetwood<\/p>\n
Published 4:40 pm Monday, March 9, 2026<\/p>\n
Land has been cleared for construction of a replacement fire hall in Fleetwood on the west side of 152 Street, near 93 Avenue.<\/p>\n
The new Surrey Fire Services hall will be four times the size of the one it will replace three blocks south, near Fraser Highway.<\/p>\n
The old Fire Hall #6, opened in 1961 and deemed no longer adequate to serve the growing community, will be demolished one day to accommodate the new SkyTrain line extension to Langley.<\/p>\n
The capital cost is $30 million for the replacement fire hall, which will be around 23,000 square feet.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now we\u2019re in the site-preparation stages,\u201d said Surrey Fire Chief Jason Cairney. \u201cThe clearing (of the site) is pretty well done. I believe there\u2019s some few final pieces to go there, but nothing still standing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Construction should start in 2027, completion in 2028.<\/p>\n
A design-build contract is due for consideration by Surrey council this spring, following a request for expressions of interest last October.<\/p>\n
The old hall #6 is one of Surrey\u2019s older fire halls, Cairney noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe timing of the SkyTrain really timed out well with the need to replace that one, because the need was coming anyways to replace or rebuild or renovate that hall to make it bigger and more modern.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether that was done on the current site or whether we had to move it, that really was precipitated by SkyTrain, which pushed us to a new location just up the street a little bit. The work would have needed to be done at some point anyways.\u201d<\/p>\n
Four residential lots were cleared for the new fire hall, to be a two-storey building with basement, the city\u2019s website <\/a>says<\/a>.<\/p>\n Amenities will include three drive-through apparatus bays, storage spaces, offices, meeting rooms, fitness room, dorms, universal rooms, classroom, kitchen and dining rooms. Site development will mainly include ramps and dock for basement storage, parking lot, landscape, civil works and some outdoor amenities.<\/p>\n The new fire hall will have direct access to both 152 and 151A Streets.<\/p>\n The department analyzed calls for hall #6 and the potential impact of moving the building north three blocks.<\/p>\n \u201cThe bulk of the call volume is on the northern side side of that area,\u201d Cairney noted, \u201cso this supports that well and doesn\u2019t really sacrifice the southern area because we can still get there quite easily down 152 Street.\u201d<\/p>\n