The Tomah Fire Department is planning to construct a new facility.
Tim Adler, Tomah Fire Department chief, said the plan is to share a facility with the Tomah Area Ambulance Service to create a single emergency service complex.
The architectural firm Keller from Appleton is drafting a building design to get some rough numbers for the cost, and it should be brought before the city council in August, Adler said. He said merging buildings will be a cost saver.
“It makes sense because there are going to be a lot of shared parts of the building that we won’t have to duplicate,” he said.
The idea to merge has been simmering since June 2018, when Tomah’s mayor Mike Murray vetoed the Tomah City Council’s decision to construct a new $2.9 million TAAS facility on the new Tomah Health campus, Adler said.