{"id":4946,"date":"2011-10-14T05:35:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T09:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2011-10-17T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:50:35","slug":"morning-read-does-saranac-lake-need-a-bigger-fire-hall-or-a-smaller-fire-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/14\/morning-read-does-saranac-lake-need-a-bigger-fire-hall-or-a-smaller-fire-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Does Saranac Lake need a bigger fire hall or a smaller fire truck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s the story laid out in a the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/527105\/New-truck-too-heavy-for-firehouse.html?nav=5008\">Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The local volunteer fire squad in Saranac Lake buys a big refurbished truck for $143,000 and only after the vehicle arrives do they discover that it&#8217;s too big to fit in the front door.<\/p>\n<p>Once they made the door bigger, they discovered that the truck is too darn heavy for the concrete floor inside the fire hall.<\/p>\n<p>That has now revived discussion of building a whole new fire hall.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Village trustee John] McEneany said it may be a time to have another discussion about what to do with the building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do  we build a new firehouse?&#8221; McEneany asked. &#8220;Do we fix the one that&#8217;s  there? Do we expand where we are? Do we go someplace else? I believe  those issues are still open.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This story raises some thorny questions, about equipment and safety issues for an important volunteer fire squad, but also about the ways that local government makes decisions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/527105\/New-truck-too-heavy-for-firehouse.html?nav=5008\">Give it a read<\/a> and chime in below.\u00a0 As always, your comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s the story laid out in a the Adirondack Daily Enterprise: The local volunteer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}