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Thursday, February 1, 1973
NEW AIRPORT FIRE STATION
A new fire station is to be built at Kai Tak Airport shortly to
replace the existing one which came into operation 14 years ago.
Costing more than $24 million to build, the station will be in Kowloon
Bay within the southern boundary of the airport.
A government spokesman said that it was necessary to resite the
present station to the west of the runway because it would be cut off from the
rest of the airport by construction works on the airport tunnel road.
A feature of the two-storey station is that its central portion will
be column-free so as to provide maximum space for fire appliances.
The spokesman pointed out that since the present station came into
operation in 1959 the number of aircraft movements on the runway had trippled
and that of helicopter movements had increased by 16 times.
Construction of the new station is expected to begin in March and
will take about seven months to complete.
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