Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Solving fire equipment storage shortage

Budget committee approves fire department budgets

Fire Chief Rod Montgomery is seen by a fire
truck at the Moose Jaw Fire Department's
North Hill fire hall on Jan. 21, 2015.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy

Fire Chief Rod Montgomery believes a storage facility would make things easier for firefighters.


“Since these two fire halls have been built, we’ve been pressed for storage. It seems odd, but that’s a fact,” he said. “So I think we need to look at doing something where we can have all our equipment in one place and that really is the idea behind our capital budget so we can proceed with that in 2016.”

At Monday’s budget committee meeting, the committee approved the Moose Jaw Fire Department’s capital budget at $49,614 for 2015.

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