 There
will be an entry plaza, a Main Street garden
and ample free parking. The "open-bay"
concept will effect a street scene featuring
antique apparatus bound to attract
passers-by.
The facility will
contain unique "hands-on" exhibits suitable
for children of all ages, the first city's
facility dedicated to provide a first-class
fire and life safety education for citizens
of all ages.
In the entry plaza will be
erected a bronze statue of a firefighter at
a fire (pictured) by
 Edd Hayes, Official
Texas State Sculptor from Old Town Spring,
Texas.
The new museum is
intended to focus on education and
prevention of life safety, unlike the old
museum which focused on the historic aspects
of firefighting. Plans call for having the
antique equipment on the first floor and the
historic artifacts from personnel on the
second floor.
Long-range planning
has a live Houston fire station with fully
operational fire crews at one end of the
museum. Visitors to the museum will see both
the old and modern fire stations.
Total cost of building the new facility and
renovation of the old museum is estimated at
$23-million. |
