THE FIRE BRIGADE IN TACHOV HAVE A NEW STATION

30. 03. 2011

On 30 March, the new C1 fire station, the construction of which OHL ŽS began in October 2009, was ceremonially opened in Tachov. Tachov will thus obtain a contemporary centralized workplace with the capacity to provide a modern background to the Fire Rescue Service.

The original premises in Hornická Street, Tachov no longer met the needs of the fire brigade. Fire protection equipment was stored in the premises of several buildings in the historical centre of the town which made not only their operation but also the coordination of action more complicated. The Fire Rescue Service of the Pilsen Region therefore decided to build a new station and purchased land by road no. I/198 for this purpose. The land is however very steep and so it was necessary to pay special attention to landscape shaping so that the transfer of fire protection equipment would be both fast and safe.

”Fire protection has reached a very high level in the Tachov region thanks to the new fire station. The premises that the fire brigade have had available until now were totally inconvenient for operational and technical reasons,” said the Deputy Director for Economic Management of the FRS of the Pilsen Region, Vladimír Lejsek.

The building of the new station is partially ground-floor and partially two-storey. The one-storey part of the premises accommodates 13 parking spaces accessible through six gates, service facilities and a washing box. In the second part of the premises, there is a clean clothes changing room and a dirty clothes changing room connected with showers, a fire hose store room, an electric switchboard room, a gas boiler room, an emergency power supply, a drying room with a washing room, a wet workshop and a dry workshop, an armature store room with a compressor room and sewage treatment plant, a store room for  foaming and sorbent materials, a store room for fuel and five offices with a small kitchen on the ground floor. On the first floor, there are bedrooms for firemen, store rooms, a dining room with a kitchen, an employee lounge, a fitness centre, a ventilation plant room and offices. A drying tower, which is 12.5 m high, rises above this part of the building. In a constructional way the building was designed as a reinforced-concrete prefabricated frame with a lining of masonry panels and bituminous roof covering. The whole building has been insulated with PE foil as protection against a high level of radon risk as well as being thermally insulated.

“Thanks to the applied modern technology, the Fire Rescue Service has the possibility of monitoring the premises with a camera system, to remote control the devices in the station also when operators are not present and to operate the station from the central office in Pilsen where the Regional Operation and Information Centre of the Pilsen Region is located,” said  Jiří Kápl, CEO of Division 7 České Budějovice of the Surface Construction Branch of OHL ŽS, a.s.

An asphalt area was constructed in front of the station, securing a safe exit for fire-fighting vehicles, controlled by means of a visual warning system. A parking lot with 28 spaces for passenger cars, of which 2 are reserved for persons with disabilities, was created at the end of the area in front of the administrative part of the premises. The parking lot is designed to be used both by employees of the station as well as its visitors. Fire reserve and retention tanks are hidden beneath the hard surface. The building of a compact transformer station, which is accessible from the local road, was built in the south-east corner of the land.

Professional firemen moved to the new premises as early as at the beginning of February, and since then the station has also been functioning as a fully-fledged response centre.

Prospectively, the project also counts on the construction of multi-functional sports grounds, a practice drill tower and the roofing of several parking spaces.

The cost of the construction reached CZK 81 million. The FRS of the Pilsen Region obtained the financial means from the state budget and the Regional Authority of the Pilsen Region also contributed the sum of CZK 14.16 million. The contractor of the construction was OHL ŽS, a.s., Surface Construction Branch, Division 7 České Budějovice. The contract was originally planned to be completed in June 2011 but the constructors managed to hand the station over to the investor half a year ahead of schedule.

The basic data about the construction: