A year ago, Hopkinsville Fire Department officials and city leaders broke ground on Fire Station 5, and on Friday, they celebrated the station’s completion with a ribbon-cutting.
The station is located at 101 Walton Way in southern Christian County and was constructed out of a preexisting building. The last time a new station was added to the department’s footprint was in 1999.
When he became Mayor of Hopkinsville in 2022, J.R. Knight says the idea to establish a fifth fire station was a part of the department’s five-year plan. One day, while Knight was at church, a friend told him about the location at Walton Way that could be a good fit for a new station. Following their conversation, Knight says he drove to the location to check it out…