"Emblem of the Association, heritage of the city, our barracks is a building that reflects the dignity of those who dreamed it, designed it, built it and who throughout all these years has given years of life to the life of the Corporation.
The CASA had several houses that served as its barracks, one rented, others borrowed. The material occupied one house, meetings were held in others, almost always the houses of some directors and commanders.
It was the year 1912 when a terrible fire reduced the tiny building in which the barracks was installed to ashes, and little or nothing was left of its material and archive. The barracks was reduced to a pile of rubble, a fire that is said to have started by a candle that the barracks had left lit by carelessness and that spread the fire to a mattress.
This unusual event made our barracks reborn from the ashes. The determination and courage to advance to a barracks worthy of the name was such that, in the same year, on October 12, 1912, a request from the Corporation was unanimously approved by the City Council, requesting the concession of a land from which a plant was attached.
The construction of its own building took place in a solemn act of launching the 1st stone of the current Headquarters, on January 1, 1915, consummating its inauguration on January 1, 1923."
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