Lake Havasu City showcases new municipal fuel facility to strengthen emergency response

Lake Havasu City Mayor Cal Sheehy and city staff on camera presented a new municipal fuel facility intended to provide backup fuel to city equipment and emergency vehicles in the event of a major outage.

Mayor Cal Sheehy opened the segment and invited residents to the city’s "Your City Behind the Cones" event, then asked a city employee identified as Bill to explain the project. Bill said, "Vision actually started years ago. It finally came to pass." He described the facility’s principal purpose: "The main the main focus on this will be in case of emergencies. If we have a catastrophic disaster that knocks out the city's electric, then that provides us with, fuel, to get our equipment moving and handle any emergencies that need to be handled without relying on private sector."

The project is presented as part of the city's broader redundancy planning. "As part of our emergency planning, you know, we've always are trying to create redundancy in everything that we do," Cal Sheehy said, listing backup power, fuel, water and wastewater among the city's priorities. He added that the facility "will provide that from a fueling standpoint, not only for our city fleet, but also emergency vehicles that may need to help in in the issue of an an emergency here."

City staff emphasized that much of the site work and construction was done by municipal crews. Bill said the streets and facilities teams handled leveling and other site preparation "under the direction of Ted Lomackie, our street superintendent, and Mark Lane, our facilities maintenance lead." The mayor praised the city's employees for performing that work: "This facility is actually something that, we can be really proud of," he said, and thanked Bill and his team for their service to residents.

The transcript does not specify when the facility will become operational for routine or public fueling, nor does it identify budget amounts or funding sources for the project.

City officials closed by inviting viewers to the "Your City Behind the Cones" event to see the facility in person.