{"id":334008,"date":"2026-07-09T04:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334008\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T04:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:47:09","slug":"charlotte-county-fire-station-3-demolished-new-station-on-the-way-port-charlotte-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334008\/","title":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE COUNTY: Fire Station 3 demolished; new station on the way | Port Charlotte News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT CHARLOTTE \u2014 Fire Station 3 has been demolished.<\/p>\n<p>The Charlotte County fire station, at 4322 El Jobean Road, was torn down for a new station that will be built at the same location.<\/p>\n<p>Station 3 was originally built in 1977. According to officials, the previous building reached the end of its life cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Officials also said the now demolished building was not up to snuff in a number of ways including:<\/p>\n<p>Not being hardened for hurricane resistanceLacking capacity for storage, equipment, apparatus and suppliesInadequate personnel capacity and kitchen facilities<\/p>\n<p>The new station will be hurricane hardened, provide more space for the Charlotte County Fire &amp; EMS team and support the growing needs of the community for years to come, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The total budget for the new station is about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottecountyfl.gov\/projects\/fire-station-3-replacement.stml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$8.6 million.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new Station 3 is expected to be completed by mid-2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t worry, we\u2019re not going anywhere,\u201d Charlotte County Fire &amp; EMS stated on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=1470607408434331&amp;id=100064552575533&amp;mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;rdid=wKVUesjkyy7Hockq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social media.<\/a> \u201cDuring construction, personnel and apparatus assigned to Fire Station 3 will operate from a temporary station at Randy Spence Park, located at 4333 Kerrigan Circle. Engine 3 and Rescue 3 will remain operational throughout the project, and emergency response coverage will continue for the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new station is being funded through the voter-approved 2020 1% Local Option Sales Tax, officials stated on social media.<\/p>\n<p>A 20-year extension of the 1% local sales tax will be on the ballot for Charlotte County voters this November. It takes the sales tax up from 6% to 7%. Officials say it pays for hundreds of millions of dollars in projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT CHARLOTTE \u2014 Fire Station 3 has been demolished. The Charlotte County fire station, at 4322 El Jobean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,853,137034,137744,12021],"class_list":["post-334008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charlotte-county","tag-charlotte-county-fire-ems","tag-fire-station-3","tag-sales-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}