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Council weighs East Side fire station site, staffing and funding options
Summary
Watertown Fire Rescue presented site options and a phased staffing plan for an East Side fire station, recommending a site on 119th Street NE and outlining a three-phase approach (site, staffing, construction). Staff estimated a 10,000-square-foot station costing about $5 million and urged early land purchase; staffing and funding remain the core
City of Watertown fire officials and staff presented site recommendations, staffing scenarios and funding options for a proposed East Side fire station during the council work session.
Fire Chief Roland and Assistant Chief Scott reviewed a multi-phase proposal that begins with site acquisition, proceeds to phased staffing and culminates in construction. Staff identified five candidate sites and recommended a parcel on 119th Street NE as the top choice based on geographic response-time modeling; staff said response times to large parts of the Northeast and Southeast of the city would fall under the target ambulance and fire response windows at that location.
Chief Roland said the city now handles roughly 3,000 ambulance calls and about 1,000 fire calls per year and that the East Side accounts for roughly a third of ambulance responses. The presentation cited national guidance: the American Heart Association’s standard of arriving in…
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