Rent increases are alarming Sacramento’s fire museum. Due to inflation, it is the most recent nonprofit organization to have to close.
Inside the Sacramento Regional Fire Museum, you may discover almost 150 years of history.
Thousands of relics were on exhibit inside the 14,000-square-foot structure on Industrial Boulevard in West Sacramento, which housed everything from hook and ladder trucks driven by hand and horse to a coal-powered engine used to put out fires during the Great San Francisco Earthquake.
Due to the museum’s permanent closure, the images are currently being removed and the exhibit cases are being covered with plastic.
“It’s a very sad moment,” board member Ric Dorris stated. “Everybody is kind of depressed about that.”
Dorris claims that the new rent increase is too much to pay because the museum’s lease was up.
“It went from approximately 12,000 to 18,000 dollars a month,” he stated. “We just didn’t have that kind of money.”
Now, docents are rushing to find places to store these unique objects, which include a huge emergency reporting fire alarm console from the 1930s.
All of the staff at the museum are volunteers. They couldn’t maintain their current location on donations, fundraisers, and entry costs alone.
Now, some of the rebuilt fire engines will be preserved in a secure location, while others will return to their original agencies.
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The museum gave children and history buffs a taste of what life and property were like in the early days.
However, the growing cost of rent is now extinguishing that curiosity.
The museum is still searching for a more reasonably priced location as well as a corporate sponsor or benefactor who may assist in establishing a consistent flow of income.
