Southside Fire Picks Up Causton Bluff Area, Moves to Pick Up Elba Island LNG Facility

The Causton Bluff, Emerald Pointe, Runaway Point, Blue Heron Bluff, and The Bluff subdivisions will now be covered by Southside Fire Department. According to local news reports, Southside will begin operating from a site on the El Paso Corp. LNG Facility (Elba Island) on 1 May 2008, with construction of a station to take 12-14 months longer.

It was also announced that El Paso Corp. has contracted with Southside to provide fire services to the LNG Facility instead of Savannah Fire, the current provider. This move just does not make sense; although Southside will likely offer service at a lower fee (much as they have with the residential areas above), they do not have a HazMat response capability. If HazMat services are needed (and liquid natural gas certainly qualifies!) then Savannah Fire will have to be called.


Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net