After a devastating set of fires in 2020, Cave Creek entered an agreement with Daisy Mountain to achieve the protection of a full-service fire department.
Cave Creek opened its first fire station in early 2022, and early this week local leaders came together to open a new fire station in the town with its own emergency response vehicles.
Gerrald Adams with Perlman Architects worked on the project. He said looking at Cave Creek’s newest fire station, it might be hard to imagine its former days as a car wash.
“It was about 4,000 square feet when we started,” said Adams. “We’re just under 10,000 square feet today. With that being said, this is a state-of-the-art station that includes all the technology we can put into it that we can afford.”
Mayor Robert Morris said an agreement with the Daisy Mountain Fire District allows for faster, better responses to emergencies.
“We had one on School House Road earlier this year,” Morris said. “Instead of one fire truck, we had 20 fire trucks show up to save some houses that day.”
Cave Creek’s fire fighters will also have a new fire engine, brush truck, and water tanker to work with.
“You just can't go to a lot, a fire truck dealership, and buy a fire truck and drive it home,” said Brian Moore, the Daisy Mountain Fire Department Board Chair. “You have to sit down, have to spec it out, then the build process takes place and it's about to — a three-or four-year process now. Pretty extensive. And this was done in three years and to arrive at this point is truly a big moment.”
Moore said plans for stations to service West Cave Creek and East Desert Hills are already in the works.
