fire at Windsor Green
I was just pulling into the CVS plaza when I smelled smoke. Got out of the car and saw black smoke over the roof top of the Middlesex Savings Bank. The fire house doors were closed and then they opened and an ambulance came out, but no ladder truck. I went in bought my VD card and came out to see a large aerial truck, I believe from the Rte 9 fire house drive past the intersection to the complex.
In the MWDN, Chief Dutcher is quoted as saying, "The fire had a good head start because smoke detectors in those two units were not tied into the fire departments alarm system? " There was definitly some delayed notification and it got a head start on us".
My question that I've asked Chief Hicks yesterday in an e mail was, were is the ladder truck that's supposed to be in Nobscot? Could that be the reason the fire got a head of them? If there is no ladder truck, how do FFF's respond to fires who are stationed in Nobscot?
Last night at the finance sub committee meeting, the fire department asked to replace the ladder truck with a new one at 778,000.00, as part of their capital requests.
posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 2:31 PM
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you can see most of the meeting, for some reason, there was no sound for the public speak portion, when I spoke. http://207.172.210.8:5002/CablecastPublicSite/show/1664?channel=1
The main reason given to replace the Nobscot fire truck is that it takes a day or two get parts and the truck is not standardized like all the other trucks are in Town and is the oldest truck. But notice, there's no real justification. No pictures of rust, no amount of mileage or hours on drive train or increased maintenance costs. Just that it's the oldest truck in the fleet. I have no issue with spending money on new air tanks, safety issues that protect the men and women, but to blindly just except what the Chief has to say is just like the olds days of Town Meeting.
So this is already a done deal?
There's been no vote by the Fiance Sub committee. But FFD did a terrible job trying to justify it's replacement. The full council has to vote on appropriating the money.
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