{"id":21295,"date":"2024-08-07T01:41:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T07:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=21295"},"modified":"2024-08-06T16:47:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T22:47:41","slug":"greenhorn-firefighter-housing-fully-occupied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/greenhorn-firefighter-housing-fully-occupied\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenhorn Firefighter Housing Fully Occupied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>BY ISAIAH FRIZZELL<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21297\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21297\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21297\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_2777-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_2777-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_2777-559x420.jpg 559w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_2777-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_2777-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_2777-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_2777.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the eight new prefabricated housing units at the Greenhorn fire station. Photo credit: WRW Staff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Greenhorn Station Housing is going swimmingly for the firefighters and first responders who call it home. The $3.2-million housing project is at capacity and while a major boon to the community, it stands, also, as a beacon of how crucial workers and critical personnel might be accommodated by the rapidly growing, recreational, mountain towns that make up Sun Valley.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s all about ensuring that we have a response in that mid-Valley corridor,\u201d Taan Robrahn, fire chief of the Sun Valley Fire Department, said about the location.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s one of those things being centrally located mid-Valley, by the river and the bike path. It\u2019s the best of all worlds. It really benefits people and the community to have first responders right there.\u201d Chief Robrahn points out that they\u2019d only projected to hit 50% occupancy but are currently at 100%.<br \/>\nLocation is everything and what is often referred to as the \u2018housing crisis\u2019 specifically costs the community. Critical personnel and workers of all emergency services are often forced to find housing much farther south, resulting in greater wait times for response and mitigation in emergency situations where every second counts.<br \/>\nPriority was given to full-time firefighters and volunteers working for the city. The new tenants who call the housing complex home pay a monthly rent and must maintain all qualifications, training and call responses while living onsite.<br \/>\nGreenhorn housing was made possible by private donations, federal American Rescue Plan Act funds from Blaine County, the district and the City of Sun Valley. The complex consists of eight 870-square-foot prefabricated units situated on a 2.4-acre parcel leased from the Idaho Transportation Department.<br \/>\nAffectionately referred to as \u2018Melrose Place,\u2019 the vibe at Greenhorn is one of joviality, civic duty and just rights where the people who keep the community safe are better provided to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY ISAIAH FRIZZELL Greenhorn Station Housing is going swimmingly for the firefighters and first responders who call it home. The $3.2-million housing project is at capacity and while a major boon to the community, it stands, also, as a beacon of how crucial workers and critical personnel might be accommodated by the rapidly growing, recreational, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,82,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-housing","9":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21298,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295\/revisions\/21298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}