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![Cardiff Fire Station firefighters Lee Dare, Col Gleeson and relieving station officer Peter Curzi. Cardiff Fire Station firefighters Lee Dare, Col Gleeson and relieving station officer Peter Curzi.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/storypad-7adhrzDPjht8B8z6U4BVsr/1e1a3d79-e03f-488a-b1d4-f3ff997debb0.jpg/r0_3_1200_678_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
CARDIFF Fire Station has undergone a $2.4-million facelift – its first since it was built in the early 1970s.
Fire and Rescue NSW Commissioner Greg Mullins reopened the Taylor street station last Tuesday.
The two-storey station boasts a new engine bay, gym, training room and disabled bathroom.
There are also two new bathrooms downstairs that replaced a cubicle shower block.
Firefighters’ personal protective equipment is now kept in a central location in a storeroom within the engine bay, making it easily accessible.
The whole station was remodelled and given a fresh lick of paint inside and out.
Relieving station officer Peter Curzi, who is a permanent firefighter at Cooks Hill Fire Station, said it was a vast improvement.
‘‘To me the biggest change is with the old station there was limited training space and now there’s a room dedicated to it,’’ he said.
Built in 1971, the station has maintained its original structure and brickwork apart from the engine bay, which was demolished and rebuilt.
Fire fighting in the suburb dates back to 1928, when a brigade operated with a horse-drawn cart out of a small shed that still stands on Main Road, Cardiff.
![The new and improved Cardiff Fire Station. The new and improved Cardiff Fire Station.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/storypad-7adhrzDPjht8B8z6U4BVsr/a9126e53-f530-4d1f-93e3-daff7a5e697a.JPG/r0_0_4272_2848_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)