Off-Site Vocation Day, Edina Fire Station, RSVP

Event Registration is closed. You may join us with no guarantee a box lunch will be available.

You’re invited to a fascinating Vocational Off-Site at the new Edina Fire Station 2! This meeting location replaces our meeting at Edina Country Club. There is no additional cost to standard RCE members. Senior active members and guests will be billed $27.

📅  Date: Thursday, April 30, 2026
🕧  Time: Doors Open @ 12:15 Program 12:30 – 1:30 PM (Box lunch included)
📍  Location: 4401 W 76th Street
📝  Registration is required (Add sandwich preference in Comments - Turkey - Beef - Veggie)

Fire Station 2 in Edina hosted a dedication of the city's relocated and new fire station on October 30, 2025. 

In the past six years, Edina worked on relocating Fire Station 2. The original station 2 ran for nearly 30 years, but the Fire Department wasn’t able to fulfill its duties in controlling its response area making the station’s move from the smaller York Avenue facility absolutely necessary.

“In 2022, we discussed site selection with [the Edina] City Council, and then in 2023, we discussed the actual project and construction. Throughout 2022, after we identified and purchased the site, [we] began the process of construction and design. That was just throughout the next few years,” Slama said.

Andrew Slama grew up in a farming community in Southern Minnesota.  He joined the Fire Service in 2004 and has worked in multiple Fire Departments with varying service delivery models, including Mankato, Savage, Mdewakanton, and Edina.  In 2021, he was hired as the Fire Chief for the Edina Fire Department.  Edina Fire is the only fire-based ambulance service in Hennepin County.  He is the vice-chair of the legislative committee for the MN State Fire Chiefs Association and co-chairs the Minnesota EMS Delivery and Sustainability Task Force.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Ann Platt
Speaker Co-Chair, Rotary Club of Edina