A new fire station to serve the growing Northside communities near the Pumpkin Hill Creek Preserve State Park has officially opened, nine months after ground was officially broken for Fire Station 76.
The new station becomes the third firefighting facility in the northeast corner of Duval County, joining others in Oceanway and North Oceanway.
It also speeds up response time to existing subdivisions, and those being built along Cedar Point Road, as well as Grover and Boney roads, where scrub pine and sand used to exist…