MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — Myrtle Beach leaders this week will consider taking on more than $26 million in debt to pay for construction of a new central fire station.
The project, included on the city’s five-year capital improvement plan, would deliver a nearly 30,000-square-foot facility with space to consolidate emergency operations, 911 and dispatch services.
“The facility has obviously outgrown its living space, and its ability to store the apparatus,” city finance director Michelle Shumpert told council members at a workshop last week. “The station manages the largest number of emergency calls in the city.”
Originally designed in the 1990s to house eight personnel, the Mr. Joe White Avenue fire station currently houses 12 people, while more vehicles have been added to the fleet…