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Fire chief presents four site options for a Wausau training tower; committee seeks more study, favors Station 2 area for outreach
Summary
The fire chief presented four potential sites for a new training tower and the Infrastructure and Facilities Committee asked staff to do further study and neighborhood outreach, focusing first on the parcel adjacent to Fire Station 2 and on Enterprise Drive properties.
The Wausau Fire Chief presented four potential sites for a proposed fire training tower and asked the Infrastructure and Facilities Committee to pick a preferred site to move forward with study. Committee members did not make a final site selection but signaled a preference to research the parcel adjacent to Fire Station 2 and to further examine properties off Enterprise Drive as lower‑politics options.
Chief (unnamed in the transcript) said selected designs vary in cost: the cheapest container‑style training setups that meet ISO training needs start at about $260,000 while full towers can range up to $1.25–1.5 million. He told…
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