Dennis Fire Chief Mark Dellner told the selectmen Tuesday he may have found a site on Route 134 near Setucket Road that would work well for a new Fire Station 2 to serve the north side of town.
“It offers the best response time and appears to be the most desirable,” Dellner said. The goal for response time is four to six minutes and he said the site would provide that for most of Dennis north of Route 6.
Dellner has been working for several months with Ted Galante of Ted Galante Architecture Studio in Cambridge, who did the feasibility study, to find a site to replace the current station on Old Bass River Road in the center of Dennis Village. Galante had determined that the current station has too many deficiencies, safety hazards and is too small at 4,000 square feet. He said an ideal fire station is 15,000 square feet of program area and a total of 18,000 square feet.