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Norwood fire chief: ladder truck out of service, mutual aid steady as grants arrive
Summary
Fire Chief Timothy Bailey told the Board of Selectmen the department's aerial ladder has been out of service about 2½ months, the town continues to receive more ambulance mutual aid than it sends, and several grants have supplied equipment for fire-prevention and senior/student programs.
Fire Chief Timothy Bailey told the Board of Selectmen on April evening that Norwood's ladder truck has been out of service for about two and a half months and remains under repair, while the department is leaning on mutual aid for truck operations and managing a high medical-call volume.
Bailey said the ladder truck is “still out of service” and is currently with a manufacturer-recommended vendor to address a transmission problem. He said the department has had “the best dialogue we’ve had in a while” and hoped for an update by the end of the week.
The chief said call volume “to date is, 2001 79,” a figure he described as roughly 19.45…
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