Fire Station Being Replaced

Construction has started on Fire Station No. 6 at 326 N. Virgil Ave., the first of 15 new stations designed to replace older facilities of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

The same design will be used at six other sites in Los Angeles, according to Howard R. Lane, head of the Lane Architectural Group, Woodland Hills, the architect.

The $1.1-million facility will replace a station constructed in 1928. The contractor for the 7,000-square-foot, one-story structure is Montgomery Ross Fisher Inc. The original fire house in that area was based in a converted house in 1896, according to Fire Chief Donald O. Manning.