Yes indeed.
Move the fire station from a central location and then an extra one is needed on the other side of town, and there's no way that two fire stations are cheaper to run than one.
Or was an additional one built at Rising Brook after they realised that fire engines are too heavy for the Baswich Lane canal bridge ?
No completely wrong. Furthermore rising brook is a retained fire station whereas beaconside is full time.
Originally fire stations were built in locations within town centres or near to town centres this is because their original role was to protect buildings and the main areas of population.
However with the introduction of smoke detectors and sprinklers etc the number of fires that the fire service now attend has drastically decreased now there main role is to deal with road traffic accidents.
The most severe road traffic accidents occur on motorways and Stafford town is difficult to get across so the fire stations are located near to m6 junctions. Furthermore historically there were a lot of low level bin fires within highfields and burton meno which is why Stafford has / used to have a small van type fire engine to deal with these.
The new fire station at rising brook were built under a pfi agreement along with others at stone, Cannock, Newcastle etc. and were designed to be more than just fire stations. The fire station at riding brook has a community room that can be hired out and at other fire stations they house police posts and ambulance crews etc.
