Remodeling of Spring Hill’s Fire Station No. 1 has been spurred on by a nearly $18,000 donation of materials and labor from the Lowe’s Heroes program.
Community members are invited to see the remodeled station at an open house event on Nov. 7 at 2 p.m. Fire Station No. 1 is located at 440 Beechcroft Road in Spring Hill.
“Our firefighters volunteered their time off-duty to make the project come together. It was a great combination of public and private coming together to make the station better,” said Spring Hill Fire Chief Terry Hood.
Lowe’s Home Improvement, which operates a Spring Hill location on U.S. 31, provides thousands of hours of support to local communities each year through its Lowe’s Heroes employee volunteer program, which encourages employees to work together, adopt a volunteer project through a local nonprofit or public school, and make a difference.
And Lowe’s certainly has made a difference at Fire Station No. 1, where employees have been busy remodeling the entire facility, including putting a fresh coat of paint on every wall, installing kitchen cabinets and countertops, refinishing the truck bay floor, building a custom desk at the front entrance, installing new door hardware and kick plates, and putting up new ceiling tiles.
“It’s absolutely wonderful what Lowe’s did; it saves the city $18,000 and now it’s a clean, sharp, fresh, new looking station that we can get another 10 years out of,” Hood said.
Lowe’s Heroes worked alongside Spring Hill firefighters, who volunteered their off-duty time to give the station a facelift.
The Spring Hill Fire Station is one of many projects carried out nationwide by hundreds of Lowe’s Heroes who mobilize for major responses, including to help families recover and rebuild in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Oklahoma, Texas and other states impacted by destructive fires, floods and tornadoes. Lowe’s Heroes completed more than 1,200 community improvement projects across North America in 2013.
