The County Council has stumped up €60,000 towards the cost of a new fire station to cover the Nacimiento and Bajo Andarax regions, above Almería on the way to Granada.
The total cost of the new station is €71,000 and local townhalls are paying the rest of the cash.
It will link in with the new fire unit being created in Canjáyar to prevent forest fires, making the new unit dual use – both forest fires and domestic.