A fire department study by the AP Triton Consulting has recommended Rockingham's three fire departments be consolidated into one, and a townwide fire district created.
The report, which was publicly discussed Tuesday night during a joint meeting of the Rockingham Select Board, the Bellows Falls Village Trustees and the Saxtons River Village Trustees, laid out several options and discussed several thorny perennial issues.
No action was taken after the lengthy presentation by John Stouffer of Triton, who appeared remotely to a roomful of firefighters and others in the Rockingham Town Hall Lower Theater.
Under the "one station" model outlined by Stouffer, firefighting costs would double, to about $761,000 a year, largely due to hiring two fulltime firefighters.