Havelock fire station could wait up to a year for necessary million dollar repairs

Havelock’s fire chief says it could take as long as a year to repair the fire hall and get a new equipment after a fire ripped through the station last week.

The fire department had only been in their new building for two years when the station suffered extensive damage after a trucks parked inside the fire hall caught fire on Jan. 7.

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The fire marshall determined the damage to the building, truck and equipment amounts to about $1 million.

Chief Arland Dunfield says everything was insured, but the fire hall likely won’t be fixed for at least a year, and their own gear it still unusable.

“We’ve picked up a couple of trucks from neighboring fire departments and we got equipment from all over the province,” Dunfield said.

“A company that we buy fire equipment from, has lend us a set of jaws (of life) and air packs and everybody has been very very helpful in getting us going again.”

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Dunfield says they now have to operate out of the old village fire hall until the newer hall is repaired.