Storm shelter installed at Higgins Ferry Park
Published 1:43 pm Monday, December 2, 2013
Crews worked Monday morning to unload and install a new storm shelter at Higgins Ferry Park.
The prefabricated shelter or safe room was lifted and placed in the location by a crane.
Crews worked Monday morning to unload and install a new storm shelter at Higgins Ferry Park.
Aqua Marine Enterprises, Inc., the manufacturer of Safe-T-Shelter safe rooms based out of Danville, installed the shelter at the campgrounds near Lake Mitchell.
The prefabricated shelter or safe room was lifted and placed in the location by a crane. Crews will work to anchor the shelter this week.
A second shelter will also be installed this week in Verbena at 3885 U.S. Highway 31 next door to the Verbena Fire Department.
The shelters meet the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) standards and will seat roughly 100 people.
Earlier this year, the county received word that the first three shelters were approved for Gov. Robert Bentley’s Emergency Relief Fund (GERF) that gives money to counties to pay the 25-percent match, allowing the first three shelters to be at no cost to the county.
The three shelters under the GERF funding will be in Verbena, Isabella and Higgins Ferry Road.
Currently, the county has seven storm shelters and plans to add 10 more so that each resident in the county is only a 5-minute drive from a shelter.
Crews will work to anchor the new shelter at Higgins Ferry Park this week.
Locations for the proposed 10 shelters that will be built throughout the county including two approved by the GERF funding include:
•Cedar Grove, 2245 County Road 37, Clanton.
•Collins Chapel, 13274 County Road 29, Clanton.
•Enterprise (Fairview), 9597 County Road 37, Clanton.
•Enterprise No. 2, 3178 County Road 49, Clanton.
•Gap of the Mountain No. 1, 768 County Road 55, Clanton.
•Gap of the Mountain No. 2, 1297 County Road 607, Clanton.
•Isabella, 1960 County Road 29, Maplesville.
•Union Grove, 18050 County Road 42, Clanton.
•Verbena, 3885 U.S. Highway 31, Verbena.
•West Chilton No. 2, 950 County Road 213, Jemison.
The seven county shelter locations that have already been installed throughout the county including the most recent shelter at Higgins Ferry Park include:
•Clanton City Hall, 505 Second Ave. N., Clanton.
•Maplesville, 120 Railroad St., Maplesville.
•Enterprise Fire Station, 6162 County Road 24, Verbena.
•West Chilton Fire Station, 2678 County Road 42, Jemison.
•Union Grove Fire Station, 11638 County Road 51, Jemison.
•East Chilton Fire Station, 5640 County Road 28, Clanton.
•Higgins Ferry Park, 11019 County Road 28, Clanton.
