{"id":204616,"date":"2026-05-28T17:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204616\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:05:19","slug":"officials-break-ground-on-new-fire-medic-station-in-pittsburghs-lincoln-place-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204616\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials break ground on new fire, medic station in Pittsburgh\u2019s Lincoln Place neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 City and state leaders broke ground Tuesday on a new Fire Station 20 and Medic 12 facility in Pittsburgh\u2019s Lincoln Place neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The new station, located off Mifflin Road near Pittsburgh Mifflin Pre-K-to-8, will replace a 120-year-old facility to improve energy efficiency, first responder safety and operational readiness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The existing station is currently located in a Federal Emergency Management Agency flood plain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The new facility will be constructed using Passive House standards designed to enhance energy efficiency, first responder health and safety and overall operational readiness for public safety needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The project will include modernized fire and Emergency Medical Services facilities, integrated training areas and updated bunk rooms. It also features cancer-prevention design strategies and a dedicated community room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s very exciting to finally see this happen. Lincoln Place, forgotten no longer for sure,\u201d Pittsburgh City Council member Barb Warwick said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Construction is expected to take approximately 18\u201322 months. Substantial completion of the facility is anticipated in August 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 City and state leaders broke ground Tuesday on a new Fire Station 20 and Medic 12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[89520,89527,89525,89522,89521,89532,89523,73414,33665,6064,89524,89533,89519,89518,43407,81736,84,89517,139,89516,15118,859,73,75,74,5608,57623,22314,89528,89531,85,89526,89530,89529,420,860],"class_list":["post-204616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-31st_ward","tag-38th_district","tag-ae7","tag-chris","tag-chris_hornstein","tag-claire","tag-claire_master_berardino_and_clark","tag-department_of_public_safety","tag-dpw","tag-ems","tag-franjo","tag-frano","tag-harry_reidshaw","tag-john_ingalls","tag-lincoln","tag-lincoln_place","tag-mayor","tag-nell_warwick","tag-news","tag-oconnor_shields","tag-oconnor","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-place","tag-public_works","tag-ryan","tag-ryan_herbinko","tag-sa_rep_inglis","tag-state","tag-takina","tag-tbd","tag-thirty-first_ward_community_action","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}