Sun VOLUME 9 | ISSUE 4 | JANUARY 2021
HOOVER’S COMMUNITY NEWS SOURCE
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From real estate and insurance to health care and fitness, our annual Women In Business feature is a chance to get to know some of the faces behind the success of many of the businesses in our area.
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Construction of Hoover Fire Station No. 11 is underway at the corner of Stadium Trace Parkway and Langston Ford Drive. Photo by Erin Nelson.
2021: WHAT TO EXPECT
New fire station, road work top Hoover capital projects By JON ANDERSON
Bucs, Jags combine for three players on first team of All-South Metro football team.
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slimmed-down city budget means fewer capital projects for the city of Hoover in 2021, but there are several projects carrying over from previous years into the new one, including a brand new fire station. Signature Homes is building Fire Station No. 11 in Trace Crossings, saving the city at least a
couple of million dollars. The station is under construction at the corner of Stadium Trace Parkway and Langston Ford Drive, just south of the turn to Bumpus Middle School. Fire Chief Clay Bentley said he expects it should be completed and ready for use by May. The 8,800-square-foot station will include three pull-through bays, an emergency operations center for the Hoover Metropolitan
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Complex, a classroom, kitchen, dining room, living area and sleeping quarters, Bentley said. The city has budgeted $300,000 to equip the station with things such as a generator, fuel tank, lockers for clothing and firefighting gear, and furniture. The Fire Department plans to staff the station with 11 firefighters — enough to have three
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Retired fire chief Bradley left legacy of leadership, service
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Family members, fellow firefighters and friends gather in the breezeway at Prince of Peace Catholic Church for the final salute with military honors and flag-folding ceremony for retired fire Chief Tom Bradley by members of the U.S. Navy Reserve on Dec. 10. Photo by Erin Nelson.
Hoover said goodbye to one of its icons in December with the passing of retired fire Chief Tom Bradley. The 92-year-old served as Hoover’s fire chief for more than 32 years — from 1976 until his retirement at age 80 in 2009 — died Dec. 5. Bradley had just beaten cancer for the third time, being declared
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cancer-free a couple of weeks before, when an infection set in and quickly took its toll due to his weakened immune system, his son Bill Bradley said. Bradley had a total of 60 years in the fire service industry, including almost three years with the Bessemer Fire Department, about 22 years with
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