New Gonzales Fire Station in the works

The Gonzales Fire Department is planning to have a second fire station in the near future.

The plans for a new station were presented at the Thursday, July 13 Gonzales City Council meeting. 

Ray Holliday and Sarah Fletcher of BRW Architects showed off different locations and designs where the potential fire would be located. 

BRW was brought into Gonzales in 2021 to do a study about the “possible second fire station,” Holliday said. 

“We finally got contracted in spring of 2022 and did the study in the spring and took it into the fall and worked closely with Chief [Wade] Zella,” Holliday said. 

BWR has been in business for 39 years and has designed 352 fire stations in the last 23 years, Holliday said. 

The Gonzales Fire Department was founded in 1884 and the current station was founded in 1908; the station went through two different remodels in 1918 and 1958, according to Fletcher. 

Fletcher added that the current station is one of the top five oldest fire stations in Texas. 

Holliday and Fletcher went over four potential sites for the proposed new station and went over three designs that GFD and the city can consider. 

This was not an action item for the city council to vote on.