Skead and Beaver Lake residents make a similar cases for their communities’ fire stations to remain open, arguing that greater city effort to recruit volunteer firefighters would save the halls
Skead residents plan on pushing back hard against a city recommendation that would see their fire station permanently close.
Ward 7 Coun. Natalie Labbée tabled a 417-name petition “and growing” from Skead residents earlier this year which aims to save their fire station. City Fire and Paramedic Services Chief Joseph Nicholls said the decision was made at the time to not repair the hall until the emergency services infrastructure review concludes, arguing there’s little sense in repairing a building that might be permanently closed.Since 2016, he said seven people have applied to join the department and five were hired.
With the Garson station already responding to all calls in the Skead area, the proposed consolidation into a new location in Garson isn’t expected to dramatically impact response times.Rather than have volunteers converge approximately 15 minutes away at a fire station in Garson before driving out to Skead, they’d be in the community from the start.This big “what if?” is what area residents are hinging their argument on, alleging the city has not done an adequate job of recruiting volunteers.
On March 4, Everest said a group of seniors went doorknocking to recruit volunteers for the fire department, and found 18 candidates, which later whittled down to approximately 15 eager to push forward with applications. “I don’t have the staff to go to every door in the community,” he said, adding that he looks forward to seeing how many of the people Skead seniors recruited follow through.
The rejected 2017 “Fire and Paramedic Services Optimization Final Report” recommended that the Skead station be renovated or rebuilt in 2020. At the time, the station was credited with offering water rescue. Like the Skead station, only approximately one volunteer firefighter has been responding to local calls for service in recent years, necessitating other area stations to come out.
Community stewards are also working on a “media blitz,” the details of which they plan on hashing out during a meeting on Wednesday.
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