Youngstown consolidating main, Madison fire stations
YOUNGSTOWN
A feasibility study will determine if the city should consider consolidating its main fire station downtown and one on Madison Avenue at a new location.
The board of control will vote today on paying $47,500 to Strollo Architects of Youngstown for work including preliminary designs, site selection and a cost estimate, said Mayor John A. McNally, its chairman.
The city is looking to find a new location for its No. 1 fire station at 420 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and the nearby No. 7 station at 145 Madison Ave. on the North Side that also would house the department’s headquarters, vehicle maintenance, inspections and investigations departments as well as a fire rescue truck, a pumper and a ladder truck, said fire Chief John J. O’Neill Jr.
The chief said a new station ideally would be near Wick Park so it could service downtown and the city’s North and East sides.
The Strollo study will determine the projected cost of a new station. But O’Neill estimated it at about $4 million.
It will take a couple of months for the study to be finished, O’Neill said.
The consolidation also would reduce fire department personnel by seven through attrition, O’Neill said.
Read more about the plan in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.