A new 12-storey building at 1025 Johnson Street on the edge of Victoria’s downtown now houses the city’s main firehall and its emergency operations centre (EOC).
The eight-storey building also contains 130 units of affordable housing — owned and operated by Pacifica Housing — an office space level separating the firehall from residences and bays for two ambulances.
It’s built to a higher seismic standard than the average building and is expected to remain operational in the event of an earthquake.
Tanya Seal-Jones, the city’s emergency program co-ordinator, says she can breathe easy now that the EOC is ready.
Before, all emergency co-ordination equipment and supplies were kept in a trailer. In the case of an emergency, officials
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