June 30
...serving up your daily dish.
Lt. Ken Mercadante took a break from polishing up the glass doors on the new Montclair fire headquarters to give the Barista a sneak preview of the building, which has its grand opening at a ceremony tonight at 6. The $5.2 million, 22,000 square foot facility took two years to build and replaces the old fire headquarters and the Walnut Street station.
In addition to the ribbon cutting, firefighters were cooking up a storm (we saw lots of sausage and peppers) and they're going to give tours of the building. On display is a room full of memoribilia from the Montclair Fire Department, including photos, old hats, uniforms, relay equipment and firehouse bells.
The only thing the new firehouse doesn't feature is a pole. (Darn!) All the dormitories are on the first floor.
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I can't come tonite, but did want to ask one question: what's the tower, on the right hand side, for? It has lots of stairs. Cardio?
Cary
Posted by: Cary | Jun 30, 2004 4:15:28 PM
(Is this a Polish joke?)
"Why is there no Pole in the Firehouse?"
Hey, let's take a poll!
Posted by: Raymmmondo | Jun 30, 2004 4:37:39 PM
What a nice dedication/celebration!
Lt. Ken Mercadante took me on a tour, too; it must have been a lllong day for our people in blue.
So I asked him Cary's question. He told me all about that 3 story tower: it's for training purposes. Scaling up it, with ladders; rappeling down it, with ropes; even filling it with smoke to simulate that fire condition.
Wow.
Posted by: Raymmmondo | Jul 1, 2004 11:41:43 AM
What a nice dedication/celebration!
Lt. Ken Mercadante took me on a tour, too; it must have been a lllong day for our people in blue.
So I asked him Cary's question. He told me all about that 3 story tower: it's for training purposes. Scaling up it, with ladders; rappeling down it, with ropes; even filling it with smoke to simulate that fire condition.
Wow.
Posted by: Raymmmondo | Jul 1, 2004 11:44:51 AM
