{"id":34366,"date":"2021-09-10T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-fire-station-in-san-juan-county-built-on-land-once-owned-by-family-of-firefighters\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:17:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:17:59","slug":"new-fire-station-in-san-juan-county-built-on-land-once-owned-by-family-of-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-fire-station-in-san-juan-county-built-on-land-once-owned-by-family-of-firefighters\/","title":{"rendered":"New fire station in San Juan County built on land once owned by family of firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Brookes Stock, 2, tries to hold onto his toy fire hat at Wednesday\u2019s grand opening of Fire Station 3 in District 1 in San Juan County. (Morgan Mitchell\/Durango Herald)<\/span>cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

FARMINGTON \u2013 San Juan County Fire and Rescue unveiled a new fire station this week, completing a longtime dream of one firefighter to turn family farmland into a fire station.<\/p>\n

San Juan County Fire and Rescue Capt. Jarred Stock, along with his firefighting wife, Jessica Stock, have four boys younger than 10 who already seem interested in the family business.<\/p>\n

But Jarred didn\u2019t just help make a firefighting family, he came from one.<\/p>\n

\"Jarred
Jarred Stock fixes the plastic toy fire hat of his 2-year-old son, Brookes Stock, at the grand opening of Fire Station 3 in District 1 in San Juan County. (Morgan Mitchell\/Durango Herald)<\/span>cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Jarred\u2019s father, Steven Stock, was a member of the Valley Fire Department for more than 30 years. It was Steven\u2019s vision for a new fire station in Waterflow, west of Farmington, that got the project rolling.<\/p>\n

The Stock family owns land that the family has farmed and worked since 1946. Today, Oliver Stock Sr., Jarred\u2019s grandfather, still farms part of the land. A piece of it, however, has now been sold to make Steven\u2019s dream come true.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur old fire station is right down the road, and me and my dad used to run to that one,\u201d Jarred said. \u201cIt was his dream to open this fire station up, so it\u2019s super exciting for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steven didn\u2019t get to see the dream come to fruition, however. He died in 2019. But Jarred said he was happy to see what his father started become a reality.<\/p>\n

Oliver sold 2 acres of land in 2019 to San Juan County. Construction began June 2020.<\/p>\n

Devin Neeley, spokesman for San Juan County, said the station cost a total of $756,133, of which $509,345 came from money saved by the fire department and $200,000 came from a State Fire Fund grant. That left San Juan County a $45,000 tab to make the station a reality.<\/p>\n

The station is a scaled-down version that does not have living quarters; rather, it is a pit stop for volunteers to grab equipment and go to a call. The station does have a large kitchen and training rooms, with the capability to expand and build living quarters in the future if the need arises.<\/p>\n

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