In Plymouth, within weeks of Town Meeting approval of a $185,000 study to conduct a fire station feasibility and facilities study, a sign was posted on the door of fire station headquarters warning of the danger of asbestos contamination in the building, and that’s in addition to a long list of problems there.
Bobbi Clark has more:
Last fall Town Meeting voted down a plan to build a new fire headquarters on Long Pond Road, but now we have a study. Chief Ed Bradley:
“I think it’s going to be one more benchmark to show everybody that what we were planning on doing is probably the best thing we can be doing. This building, in the headquarters station, we put a new roof on after all that damage happened. We spent over six hundred thousand dollars on that. The building still leaks: the walls leak, the windows leak, the doors leak.”
The Chief says the mold in the basement because of the water problem is bad…
“…and that’s going to be remediated, it’s going out to bid. But, we’re going to spend another three or four hundred thousand dollars somewhere by the time we get done just on that. In the meantime, you notice at the front door of this station and the other ones we’re looking at with the architect, they’ve been placarded because the building contains asbestos. But the firefighters are living and working out of there. We don’t want the public in here—that’s why the signs are put up. We didn’t put them up. The DPW was forced to put them up because of conditions that are unsafe.”
Unsafe, but money continues to be spent…
“So the longer we put off putting into a new facility and the more money we’d spend, keeping this facility, so we can just barely operate out of it, is a waste of taxpayer’s dollars. Hopefully, this study will prove that to everybody.”
