City breaks ground on newest fire station

With a fling of dirt Friday, ground was broken on the San Marcos Fire Department’s newest fire station. 

Located in the Trace neighborhood in southeast San Marcos, Fire Station 6 will service a growing area in the city.

“When I started just a few years ago, we had three fire stations and a minimum staffing of seven firefighters on duty at one time,” Assistant Fire Chief Karl Kuhlman said during a groudbreaking ceremony on Friday. “San Marcos looked vastly different back then — I-35 was narrower, the buildings were shorter, the people fewer, I had hair — my how times have changed. But the explosive growth along I-35, we have a duty, a responsibility to take care of everything in and around our community.”