Two of the department's training containers are in place in the corner of Hammer and Wikan's back lot, a temporary stopgap for PVFD training resources while a more permanent training site is figured out.
The Petersburg Borough Assembly on Monday unanimously rejected a motion to ask voters for a $1.3 million bond to build a new fire department training site next to Fire Station 1, choosing instead to take up the project at a work session in January.
The fire department's training props must leave Scow Bay by Nov. 30 to make way for construction at the borough's boatyard project.
The vote came after a local business, Hammer & Wikan, agreed to let the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department set up two of its training containers on its back lot for up to two years. Fire/EMS Director Aaron Hankins sai...
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