Information from WYSH Radio
If you have driven on Hicks Street in Clinton, you have no doubt seen the construction going on behind City Hall.
Workers are constructing an expansion of the Clinton Fire Department’s headquarters that will create a place where three on-duty firefighters can stay during their shifts, including a sleeping area, a kitchen, a day room, and both men’s and women’s bathrooms. In addition, the expansion will create a new office for the Fire Department. Officials say that expanding the headquarters and creating space for on-call firefighters to remain on the premises should cut down on response times on the western side of the city.
The new addition is just part of a project with a price tag of some $490,000 that will also add heavy-duty, industrial exhaust fans to the garage bays at all three stations that will dissipate dangerous diesel fumes emitted by the fire trucks. Renovations are also being made on a smaller scale at each of the other two stations in the city and at the training tower.
City officials were scheduled to meet with the project architects on Wednesday (today), and WYSH Radio hopes to sit down with Fire Chief Archie Brummitt on Thursday to find out more about how these changes will improve fire services in Clinton.
More information will be added as it becomes available.
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