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Another Saskatoon fire department station is scheduled to move.

The fire station in the Kelsey Woodlawn neighbourhood is slated to relocate about four blocks east, part of a larger plan to move the mechanical and maintenance shop from the Idylwyld Drive location in the Riversdale neighbourhood.

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City council’s finance committee endorsed a deal to buy a parcel of land that lies south of The Brick store on Circle Drive East for $740,000. The land is owned by the same company that owns The Brick.

The existing fire station on Faithful Avenue was built in 1960 to serve the North Industrial sector, a City of Saskatoon report states.

The station is now deemed “aging and replacement is required,” adds the report, which was written by fire Chief Morgan Hackl.

The new fire station would be located on First Avenue North and incorporate a new mechanical and maintenance shop.

The current shop at the station on Idylwyld was built in 1964 and is no longer considered adequate for the fire department’s needs, the report says.