Kansas City, Kan. Fire Station Number 20, at 78th and Kansas Ave. in the Muncie neighborhood, was urgently closed on Friday due to an unidentified structural issue that apparently made it unsafe to inhabit.

Deputy fire chief Andrew Novak ordered the station closed in a memo Friday afternoon, relocating the station’s pumper unit to Station 2 (63rd and State Ave.). Two EMS units relocated to Station 15 (Kindleberger Rd. in Fairfax) and Station 19 (81st and State Ave.)

Novak gave no timeline for reopening the station, and department spokesman Deputy Chief LaRwan McClaine did not return a message left Monday afternoon.

Wyandotte Township built the fire station in 1942 as Station #2 to provide coverage to areas outside Kansas City, Kan. at the time. The city acquired the building in the 1972 annexation and renumbered it as KCKFD Station 20. Pumper 20 still bears the name “Muncie” on the front as a commemoration.

A video tour of the station made in July by KCKFD Capt. Steve Pope noted reports of cracked or warped beams. The department has proposed a new station nearby to replace the current aging building.

There was no answer to a knock on Station 20’s front door Monday afternoon. Signs on the building directed visitors to call 9-1-1 for emergencies.