I'm a little confused. Was the firehouse evacuated before the
Belmont burned, or after?
I missed the fire, but I was driving down Route 9 in Lakewood
yesterday late afternoon and I could have SWORN I heard the sounds
of a fiddle.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 02/27/06
> BY NANCY SHIELDS
> STAFF WRITER
> ASBURY PARK Fire officials evacuated their more than a century-
old
> three-story firehouse today after the state Public Employees
> Occupational Safety & Health came in to investigate a sagging
second
> floor.
>
> The city had been evaluating a 3-inch dip in the floor in the bunk
> room and reached out Monday for Michael Jahn, the city
construction
> official. An employee had complained to PEOSH, which brought that
> agency to the firehouse.
>
> Fire Director John Murphy said the Fort Monmouth Fire Department
was
> helping to shore up the floor but predicted the firefighters - a
> full-time paid work force - will be out of the building for at
least
> a week because of the eminent hazard.
>
> The decision to evacuate was made at 12:30 p.m., he said. A
> structural engineer was being brought in to evaluate the entire
> building.
>
> The firehouse switchboard will remain operational between 3 and 4
> p.m. today and then the county emergency switchboard will take
over,
> Murphy said.
>
> The city's public works yard on Main street could become the
> temporary home of the firefighters, who also run the city's
> emergency response system.
>
> City Manager Terence Reidy said Monday that some of the beams
under
> the second floor are sagging and are being shored up. City
officials
> have said for nearly a decade that the department needs a new
> firehouse because of the condition of the old one.
>
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