The North Mason Regional Fire Authority spoke with the Shelton-Mason County Journal on Monday about its new headquarters building at 490 NE Old Belfair Highway.

"It's been a crazy morning," North Mason RFA Chief Beau Bakken said. "We spent all of last week making the move into this facility. By the afternoon of Friday, May 13, we knew we had to have everything over here that we would need in order to function."

Bakken deemed Friday night the station's "special soft grand opening," leading into the following morning's pancake breakfast at the station, which he estimated drew at least 400 att...