Pointing to long-running structural and health concerns, Mount Vernon Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard announced on Friday that the Oak Street Firehouse will be temporarily relocated.
The mayor said that operations at the Station 4 Firehouse will be moved until the city can make long overdue repairs. The firefighters and equipment will be immediately relocated to the Station 3 Firehouse until the city can establish a temporary Station 4 located near the Mount Vernon West MetroNorth train station. In the meantime, EMS crews will be staged at strategic locations to maintain rapid response times.
"The structural integrity of this building has been well-documented and compromised since 2008," Mayor Patterson-Howard said. "Where temporary fixes were installed at all, no significant repairs have been performed in the past 13 years.