The 43,000-square-foot, 12-bay firehouse, which is now under construction to serve a department of 220, is nearly three times the size of the current firehouse.
HOW MUCH: $975,000 (the owners are also selling their home-run business: fire-engine tours of San Francisco, for $249,000, or less if bought with the property) SIZE: 5,000 square feet PER SQUARE FOOT: $195 SETTING: This converted firehouse is on a residential block in Ocean View, a neighborhood in southern San Francisco that the listing agent describes as quiet and traditionally working class.
When the south tower fell, the shock wave lifted cars off the street, knocked people off their feet and blew out the firehouse's rear windows.
FOR a century, the Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department has occupied a small red firehouse about 400 feet from the waters of Jamaica Bay, Queens.
Macron also sent a team and supplies to the island, where Irma ripped the main weather station and police headquarters to pieces and the put its firehouse under several feet of water.
CONTACT: Vivian Bridaham, Glacier Sotheby's International Realty, (406) 586-4408; glaciersothebysrealty.com PHILADELPHIA WHAT: A one-bedroom, two-bath loft with a studio apartment in a former firehouse HOW MUCH: $599,900 SIZE: 4,025 square feet PER SQUARE FOOT: $149.04 SETTING: This loft is in Kensington, a mixed-use neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia near the Delaware River.
Forsaking dinner, they scattered to the Clubhouse, a humble community center behind the firehouse that was several feet higher.
By 8 p.m., every seat at the 42-foot bar, in a renovated 1890s firehouse, was taken, and Kentucky-made whiskey was flowing freely.
But the text does not instruct a visitor that what appears to be a nondescript building 150 feet away is the back of the firehouse itself.
And a study of the ground at his feet did indeed seem to show no discernible sidewalk, but rather a continuous asphalt parking lot stretching from the firehouse to the curb about 200 feet away.
In April, a volunteer fire company in Greenwich renounced an agreement it had with Omnipoint to replace its 60-foot flagpole with a 150-foot cellphone tower after neighbors began talking about bulldozing the firehouse in response.
