The city's Emergency Services Department yesterday dedicated its new paramedic facility in Wahiawa.

The 1,512-square-foot structure at 640 California Ave. on the same property as the Wahiawa Fire Station provides permanent headquarters for emergency personnel serving the area. The Wahiawa EMS unit has been operating out of a 200-square-foot office at Wahiawa General Hospital for the past 12 years.

The new facility, built for $1.1 million, is equipped with basic amenities such as a shower, toilet, kitchen and refrigerator that were not available at the old site, as well as a decontamination room, said department spokesman Bryan Cheplic.

An EMS facility was dedicated last year in Kapolei and a new one, which will be able to house two units, is planned for Young Street.

SUSPECTS SOUGHT IN BAR ROBBERY

Police have made no arrests in a robbery late Wednesday night in which two masked gunmen held up a Chinatown bar.

The robbery was reported at 11:15 p.m. No one was injured.

Two men armed with a pistol and shotgun ordered bar patrons and workers to lie on the floor, robbed them and took an undisclosed amount of cash from the register.

The men fled in a vehicle driven by a third suspect toward Nimitz Highway.