I love this, made me want to become a fire fighter when I was older, 20 years later and alas I am not one.

Love the garage doors, great wheels on the Car/4x4.

I got the 6593 set with this as a Christmas present, I felt like the luckiest kid around. They are now packed up in my attic, all pieces there.

The 6593 with ladder really compliments this set, it also fits under the middle arch.

Really love this, Awesome!

I own many town sets between 1989 and 1994,what I consider to be the best years of lego sets. This set is one of my favorites because of it's rolling overhead doors.I mean,come on! not many other sets had this. overall if your town is missing this set,get one. It's worth every penny!

A really great fire station, superior to 6571 and comparable to 6385.
Things I particularly like:

• Garage doors... these look great and are invaluable pieces
  
• Set contains possibly the best fire car ever, pute the one from 6571 to shame
• Decent amount of glass - garages are not open at the sides like 6571. Also allows for modification possibilities.
• Interesting engine with water cannon and hose, which can be modified
  
• Two string hoses, and 3 plastic hose pieces
  
• Rare yellow barriers
  

• the ubiquitous micro chopper,
  
• the fact that two out of five firemen have no head protection at all - not clever.
  
• The smaller garage barely clears the fire car when its aerial is down
  
• the room is only 5 tall, it's before the made six tall rooms the default.
  
• Engine front lightsare pathetic
• Not a single ladder at this fire house!

Pretty sure this is the best fire station yet. The building probably could've used another floor, but you can add that on yourself. After all you do get two garage doors and room to park a third vehicle. The helicopter is alright, the truck is cool, and the tank is interesting. Any other color scheme, and you could drive that bad boy into combat.

Of all the Lego Fire Stations 6389 is my favourite. The set is generally well designed. No juniourisation and a high level of innovation that I don't think many recent Lego sets have.
Cool pieces include the roller doors, chunky wheels and printed 1x3 doors on the utility, red 2x3 doors and the glass canopy on the fire engine, a whole heap of red 2x1x5 pillars and 4 old style fire men.
The building itself is a good design with the size of the two garages matching the size of its fire engine. I didn't like how the fire men had no rest and recreation area so I added another floor onto my station.
The fire truck is a great design. It looks really sleek like the 6430 of the same era. The mechanism for folding the hose out is pretty nifty too.
The fire utility is nice eye candy but it's silly how a mini fig wearing a fire helmet wont actually fit in it. And what's with the hose on the tray? It has no water tank and no fittings to attach itself to a fire hydrant. The only good thing about the model is the doors and the wheels.
The helicopter is pretty straight forwards and obviously just tacked on to fill the set out a bit more. No major design flaws, just a little plain.
With the firemen however you only get one actual fire helmet. The helicopter pilot has a full face helmet and two guys have hair. This is because one guy drives a desk and doesn't need a fire helmet and the second guy can't drive the utilty with a helmet on.
But overall I still like this set. Its mostly salvaged by the awesome fire engine. And compared with all other firestations it stands out because of the great brick selection and the its the only one with a 6 wheeled fire engine. I would recomend this set to anyone is just starting and LFD or who just wants to add some great new bricks to their collection.