1. Town of Newbury Proposed New Fire Station
Background Information

2. Existing Conditions 
The size allotted to the fire department is inadequate for today’s needs.
The present building is no longer up to current code requirements in the following areas:
 Structural capacity
 Electrical systems
 Heating and ventilating systems
 Energy conservation requirements
 Fire and Safety requirements

3. Current Fire Station Exterior
Two Bay Station

4. Existing Conditions
The existing Newbury Fire and Police Station (Safety Service Building) is a wood-framed building approximately 6400 square feet in size.
The fire station uses approximately 5000 square feet and the police station uses approximately 1400 square feet. There are multiple areas of concern regarding the existing building including:

5. Limited space for parking of apparatus
Apparatus Floor
Limited space for parking of apparatus

6. Existing Conditions 
There is inadequate storage space for handling equipment, supplies and apparatus presently used on an ongoing basis.  
The existing fire department ceiling is too low for the needs of today’s equipment.
The existing fire department truck bay doors are too small for the needs of today’s equipment.

7. Limited area for working on trucks
Narrow Aisles
Limited area for working on trucks

8. Truck in front must be moved before rear truck can respond
Stacking of Trucks
Truck in front must be moved before rear truck can respond

9. Small training/Meeting Room
Limited space for hands on training

10. Training and Meeting Room
Training and meeting room space as well as office space is inadequate for the current operations of the fire department

11. Limited Office Space Personnel must share desks and computers
No office space to conduct business with the public

12. Limited storage/repair room
Air pack filling, tools, storage and heating oil tanks in same small area

13. Existing Conditions
There are inadequate space/facilities in the fire department to address the cleaning and maintenance of today’s emergency response equipment.

14. Gear Storage on Apparatus Floor
Turnout gear exposed to truck exhaust
Responding firefighters must put on gear around the parked trucks

15. Limited site lines on Route 103
Traffic on road cannot be seen when leaving station

16. Existing Station
There is inadequate turning space for fire department apparatus in front of the bay doors, necessitating maneuvering and backing up on NH Rt. 103 in a potentially dangerous manner.
There is inadequate on-site parking. the parking lot, the parcel is fully developed.

17. Growth of Newbury Fire Department
In 2001 the department responded to120 calls per year. In 2017 calls for service were 343. The size of the fire station has remained the same while the volume of calls has almost tripled

18. Call Response is now less than 50% of Employee Time
Today call response is less than half of the firefighter’s time. Training, required by the state and to maintain EMS Licenses is 27%, administrative and service is 21%, much of this work is done at the station

19. Bald Sunapee Property

20. Playground in center of property station site at the right
Proposed site
Playground in center of property station site at the right

21. Proposed New Fire Station

22. Additional Information
For information on the fire station project study committees, public meetings and presentations visit the Town of Newbury website