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As most of you will recall, The Centre of Salisbury Mall offered the abandoned Montgomery Wards Service Center up for FREE to create a Fire Station on the North end of the City.
However, what most of you didn't know is that the building above near the Powerhouse Gym across the street from the new $10,000,000.00 Fire Station 16 was offered to the City for a song and a dance and they refused to accept that building as well.
At this point you have to start thinking, why would they drop two opportunities in perfect locations to house TWO Fire Stations at a fraction of the cost of just one?
Could it be that there was more advantages financially the other way around?????? I could go on and on with this Post but you know what, you know where I'm going with this. Now you know the truth and the comments should clear the air on how you feel now that you've been informed.
They could have left the old Station 16 where it is, added the other one, (photo above) with 5 PULL THROUGH BAYS already in place and would have housed ANY Ladder Truck and other major equipment and had a Station on the North end.
How's this Mayor working for you now Folks?
13 comments:
She works for the people, she just doesn't listen to them.
Hmmmmmmmmm
Intersting very intersting...
It still wasn't designed to be used as a firehouse. Even Pocomoke had to tear down the portion of the building that houses the fire station. They only saved the portion to be used for the community center.
Anonymous said...
It still wasn't designed to be used as a firehouse. Even Pocomoke had to tear down the portion of the building that houses the fire station. They only saved the portion to be used for the community center.
1:26 PM
So how do you design a building to be a fire station???
A fire station is nothing more than a garage with some offices and that is what this place is.
Pocomoke took over the old A&P store that wasn't a garage so of couse they had to do some tearing down and remodeling.
Pocomoke was also smart enough to strategically place their new station in the middle of everything and not in the middle of a GHETTO!!
Anon 1:26
When you have NO MONEY, does it make sense to spend $10 million? Why not work with what you have? It obviously wasn't designed to be a fire station. So what? Could it have worked? Of course. We are all broke and enduring a depression, yet our politicians are spending money.
This just demonstrates how out of control this city and its administration is. If this building was empty and available, it should have been the first thing considered for the new Fire Satation on the West side. They could have added to the building even for a lot less than $10 million. As Bosshog said and I agree - Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!
A. Goetz
Salisbury must be in competition with the city of Cambridge for overpriced and poorly located new fire stations
What you don't understand is that there are National Fire Protection Agency mandates (and probably OSHA too) that require certain standards in a building to be a fire station that for one involve firefighter health and safety. That's why it is probably more cost effective to build from the ground up instead of retrofitting a building that was designed for an entirely different purpose. And in Pocomoke's case the portion of the building that was supposed to be a fire station was COMPLETELY torn down not just SOME tear down and remodeling. The community hall only needed an open shell. Pocomoke has only one station to respond from and where they moved to probably only knocks a few seconds of their response to some areas and increases it in other areas.
And you act like it is a big surprise that they spent 10 million. When they first dreamed up this new station it was known it was going to be an expensive project. Has anyone tallied up how much of the Lacy Fund or 501 money was used to offset the costs if any? Why can't you people research your material before you attempt to comment on what you don't know about.
As far as the location, I agree it may not be the most advantageous location, but where else were they to build with a large enough parcel of land to be at least near the center of their response area and have to be concerned with how much longer they could feasibly remain where they were?
What's happening on Mt. Hermon Rd in the area of Holloway Transit? Sheriff command unit and multiple agencies were on the scene.
Anonymous said...
"What you don't understand is that there are National Fire Protection Agency mandates (and probably OSHA too) that require certain standards in a building to be a fire station that for one involve firefighter health and safety. That's why it is probably more cost effective to build from the ground up instead of retrofitting a building that was designed for an entirely different purpose."
"Why can't you people research your material before you attempt to comment on what you don't know about."
You seem to know so much or you seem to think you do so why don't you do your own research. I know you don't know what the F#CK you are talking about because you admitted it several times with "probably." What are the NFPA standards? What are the OSHA rules and regulations? I didn't think you knew!!
"As far as the location, I agree it may not be the most advantageous location, but where else were they to build with a large enough parcel of land to be at least near the center of their response area and have to be concerned with how much longer they could feasibly remain where they were?"
8:48 PM
WTF are you talking about. First of all they didn't need to build a large station, it could have been a substation and they should have kept the old station. Give us all a break you moronic idiot!!
alls i know is we could have 3 stations for the cost of 1
I'm a moronic idiot? The fact that you have resorted to name calling when all I was doing was offering my opinion reveals the true caliber of person you seem to be. And by the nature of your rebuttal you are someone who has not a clue as to what you are talking about. Why don't you offer us some insight as to your knowledge of the fire service? Or maybe you are one of those people who is pissed off because no one takes you seriously and can only resort to name calling to make you feel like somebody. Or you are one of those folks who have been in the fire service for just a couple years but seems to think that because you have taken all these classes and been to a few calls that you have the equivalent of 20+ years.
Oh and I forgot to post my name on my earlier comment. Maybe you can enlighten us as to your identity.
Chris Brown
first off as a city of salisbury firefighter i agree, there was no reason to spend $10,000,000 on a new fire station. but these buildings were not engineered to house vehicles of this nature. i've been in construction all of my working life. i've been involved in the construction of two fire houses, both in deleware. the concrete pads these vehicles are parked on are specifically engineered to hold the weight of these mammoth vehicles. just for instense we built a pepboys in northern DE. the concrete in the bays there was only ten inches thick. the last fire station we did the bay floors were 28 inches thick and very heavily reinforced. even a fiscally responsible administration (which we don't have) would have had to turn down these offers. oh and they weren't offering to donate them, they tried to put a price tag on it and quite frankly to me it was them trying offload worthless real estate with minimal effort.
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