Plymouth Fire Chief Says When Funding Approved Bourne Rd. Gets New Fire Station, Needs at Fire Dept. Headquarters Will have to Be Addressed Soon

In Plymouth, there are seven Fire Stations, covering over 100 square miles, and a population edging close to 70,000 that swells to over 100,000 at the peak of the tourist season. 

Of those stations, a new one could be built on Bourne Road, on 2 acres of land recently donated by A. D. Makepeace.

When funding is approved, it will replace the existing Station 4, built in 1977, a small facility designed before residential developments like Redbrook were envisioned.

But, there’s also updating activity at some of the town’s other fire stations.

Bobbi Clark has more:

Chief Neil Foley says work on Station 2, on Samoset Street in West Plymouth started last year, with completion expected by December. 

“We’re adding a very significant addition to that station so that it will be able to house the equipment that we need, and to safely house the firefighters there, and also living quarters that are more conducive to social atmosphere today, individual bunk rooms,” said Foley. “The firefighters right now are living in a housing trailer on the lot—so they’re still responding out of that station. It’s a still a very active station.”

And, on Sandwich Street, at Fire Department headquarters, after firefighters had to evacuate that station in 2019 because of mold and debris falling into their living quarters, Chief Foley says the town hired an expert to do in-depth remediation of the facility.

“…particularly in the basement, they installed a lot of ground water pumps to remove the standing water and also the water that was seeping up through the floor, and then completely cleaned and repainted the surfaces down there so that any existing mold, mildew–been effectively cleaned. So, the environment itself is better, but the station still has a lot of shortcomings that we’re going to have to address in the near future.” 

The Chief says other project going out to bid this week is the Manomet station:

“We’re working a lot with the Manomet Steering Committee and working with the design team to make sure we have a design that works well for the neighborhood, but essentially it’s going to be a very similar project to what we’re doing in West Plymouth.”