Puddlejumper's 2010 Summer Firehouse challenge

[Puddlejumper]

Thanks for your encouraging comments biL. Throughout the thread I may put up a few more firehouse photos for reference. There are 35 active firehouses in the city, with probably another 15 decommissioned firehouses, all of which have their own personality and architecture depending on the era they were built. I am not modeling any specific firehouse, just trying to accomplish the "feel" of the urban firehouse.

I am a volunteer as well, out in the country beyond the extended suburbs of D.C. and it sounds like we are much the same as the volunteer firehouse you describe, only we are not allowed to use any type of special lights on our vehicles to "respond" to the firehouse when the siren blows.