PROSPECT — Prospect-Franklin Volunteer Fire Department’s station will be bigger and better in late spring when an addition and renovation project is finished.

“Everything will be updated. It will look like a brand-new building from the inside and the outside,” said chief Nate Blackwood.

The station, which has been a fixture on Main Street since the early 1900s, is getting an addition to house three truck bays, including a drive-through bay; and renovations are being made to the existing building.

Blackwood said the department, established in 1912, currently fits four trucks into the two existing bays and, for some calls, has to move a truck to get another out, which adds to response times.

“We only have two truck bays, but we have four trucks in those two bays. They’re stacked two deep

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