Ambulance service pays for fire station renovation plans
MOUNT DESERT The Northeast Harbor Ambulance Service has offered to pay up to $30,000 for concept plans for the renovation of the fire station in Somesville to provide living quarters for firefighters and EMS personnel.
Fire Chief Mike Bender has hired Fraser Associates Architects of Bar Harbor to do that work.
The ambulance service is to be folded into the town’s fire department by the end of next year. Bender and ambulance service officials have said there needs to be a stronger, around-the-clock presence of firefighters and EMS personnel in both Northeast Harbor and Somesville.
Voters at Town Meeting Tuesday evening authorized spending up to $357,500 for engineering and design services for a proposed expansion of the fire station in Northeast Harbor to house fire and EMS personnel and equipment. The vote was 46-18.