Fort Smith fire station dealing with severe mold and half-million dollar clean-up bill

Firefighters at Station 1 in Fort Smith, Ark., sleep in the training room and cook in the engine bay, Thomas Saccente at Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports, since a Sept. 2020 survey found Aspergillus and Cladosporium fungi at the station at 200 N. Fifth St. Fire Chief Phil Christensen talks about the battalion chief’s office at the Fort Smith Fire Department’s Station 1 on Thursday. This office was one of multiple rooms at the station that were discovered to have been affected by fungi last year. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Thomas Saccente)They’re expected to move back into their sleeping and living quarters in…