LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - Longview’s new Fire Station 8 is now also housing a second Longview fire station crew. That’s because station 7 is being rebuilt from the ground up.

The proposed cost of the new fire station had ballooned to $7.2 million last year from $5.5 million in 2022, a figure that had been based on the cost to complete Fire Station No. 7 on Longmire ...

Longview Fire Marshal Kevin May says that plan became a problem with the Computer Aided Dispatch or CAD system. “It became complicated with the old 8 and the new 8 being too close together. So, they ...