Clay County Fire Rescue on Wednesday November 6, 2002, opened a fire station in a farmhouse in Argyle ( Fire Station # 26 at 335 Cheswick Oaks Drive ). Until the county can afford to build a permanent station, the farmhouse station will serve the Clay county portion of Argyle and immediate surrounding areas. A permanent station may be constructed in 18 months for about $250,000 on 2 acres that landowner Frank Spencer donated. The land is south of where Cheswick Oak Avenue ends. For now, the temporary station will have a two-person crew on staff around the clock. (Eventually, it will be a three-person crew.) The crew will be trained in firefighting and medical emergencies.

See News Article at: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/110902/nec_10913335.shtml

Argyle Clay County Fire Station

Any idea whether this station will respond to nearby Duval county homes? I assume not but some of us in Chimney Lakes are in the same predicament in terms being far from a regular station -but we are rather close to the Cheswick location.

oops ...

I should have read the article more carefully - it says in there:

''Until the county can afford to build a permanent station, the farmhouse
station will serve the Clay county portion of Argyle and immediate
surrounding areas''.

1st 5 Calls Were in Duval County

The First 5 Calls of Clay County Fire Station 26 Were in Duval County.
Here are some of those calls:

1. Three people were badly injured in a car crash in the 8000 block (Highland Lakes) of Argyle Forest Boulevard Thursday, 11-13-2002, afternoon.
Jacksonville Fire Rescue reports that one victim was ejected, and another was trapped in the wreckage.
All three were taken to Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center.
Rescue units from both Jacksonville and Clay County responded, and traffic homicide investigators were called to the scene, as injuries were believed to be life threatening.
Argyle Forest Boulevard was closed between Westport Road to Rampart Road for almost two hours while the accident was investigated and cleared. It reopened to traffic just before 5:30 p.m.
Full Story at: http://www.news4jax.com/jax/news/stories/news-178430820021113-151147.html

1. An Orange Park motorist is dead after her car was struck in the side by a dump truck at the intersection of Argyle Forest Boulevard and Branan Field yesterday(11-18-2002).

Lori Ann Sherry, 39, of the 500 block of Norton Avenue was westbound on Argyle Forest Boulevard and was heading into the setting sun when she ran through a stop light at the intersection with Branan Field, according Trooper Mike Quade of the Florida Highway Patrol.
Full Story at: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/111902/met_11006697.shtml