Fire Station 34, which broke ground on June 29, 2023, is located at 3255 Westwood Drive. The plan area is the city’s newest community: a 3,520-acre area bounded by Highway 50, White Rock Road, Prairie City Road and the El Dorado County line.
“This represents the first firehouse out in this area,” Fire Chief Ken Cusano told ABC10. “It gives us the opportunity now to be a lot more expeditious in our responses to any of their emergency needs.”
Cusano said the fire station is the city’s sixth, and it took about two and a half years total to design and 14 months to construct.
“I've kind of seen it being put together piece by piece,” he said. “Once it gets to this point, it's a lot more exciting because you can actually pull up and say, ‘That's a firehouse now.’”
He said the community response he’s received shows people are ready for the station to be there, and they’re excited.
“We already have neighbors behind us that last night… were yelling out their window that they were baking cookies and going to be bringing them over,” he said.
Thursday’s grand opening was dedicated to Bill Murdock, a retired assistant chief of the Folsom Fire Department who spent 32 years fighting fires. Murdock was at the ceremony, according to Chad Wilson, another assistant chief who currently works at the department.
