Thursday, February 14, 2013
Chief Henrikson says Warwick should have just come out and said they weren't interested instead of stringing the EGFD on.
The Warwick Fire Department was “weeks” away from taking over EG fire dispatch when the whole plan came to a halt, said Fire Chief Peter Henrikson in an interview Tuesday. Henrikson had a pile of papers to document what took since 2009 to transfer East Greenwich fire dispatch duties to Warwick because the EGFD has come under fire lately for spending $147,000 on equipment for both EG and Warwick that is now not needed. East Greenwich Fire Commissioners voted to end dispatch consolidation talks with Warwick at their meeting on Jan. 24. Henrikson said the impetus for moving dispatch to Warwick was to free up a firefighter from doing dispatch. Paid firefighters covering dispatch dates back to the1980s. A internal study from 1990 recommended …
Monday, February 4, 2013
Mayor Scott Avedisian says, in hindsight, a feasibility study should have been conducted first.
Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian said Monday he was "disappointed" that the East Greenwich Fire District terminated dispatch merger talks. "I am disappointed that the Fire District voted to stop the discussion about dispatch but I certainly understand and apologize to Chief Henricksen and the Board for the length of time that it has taken," Avedisian said in an email. East Greenwich Fire Commissioners voted to end dispatch consolidation talks with Warwick at their meeting on Jan. 24, after three years of effort and $162,000 in EGFD money spent on equipment for both towns. There was no written agreement between Warwick and EGFD. According to EG Fire Chief Peter Henrikson, of the $162,000 spent, about $15,000 was spent on East Greenwich …
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The Warwick Fire Department is using the blue house next door to 1149 Restaurant for training purposes over the next several weeks.
It was the crowd of fire fighters in full gear on the roof of the house that caught my eye as I waited to turn right onto Division Street from the Route 4 offramp across from 1149 Restaurant. But no flames. No smoke. Warwick Fire Capt. James Maxfield filled me in: these were fire recruits and they were training on the empty house. "Today we're doing forceable entry and ventilation," Maxfield said. That would explain all the holes in the roof. He said the homeowner had contacted the city (that side of Division Street is Warwick) and gave the structure to the fire department to practice on. Holes in the roof of a burning structure can help draw the fire up and out, Maxfield explained, and can prevent a dangerously combustible situation …
Jillian Preble
12:12 am on Monday, February 18, 2013
Where in Potowomut is there space? Ives is all owned land. Not sure the deed from Gaddard would allow one in the park. The deed doesn't even allow overhead telephone wires. Knock down the old school and build there is the only place I may see. more ›