A citizen committee to explore fire station options will present Monday to the city a study from Pivot North Architecture detailing the needs of the new stations. The presentation will take place at 3:30 p.m. at City Hall.  

While the cost, construction timeline and design of the new stations are not yet known, the department’s leaders have some ideas about what they want their new home bases to look like.  

It may be cheaper to build new stations on new sites than to demolish the existing stations and rebuild in the same locations, he said, although the department will likely keep Station Three on Washington Street South. Stations One, on Second Avenue East, could move elsewhere. And so could Station Two on Falls Avenue.

The department is having “a little problem with money” being appropriated on time, Capt. Chris Jackson of Station 21 reported to NPU-B at its Oct. 2 meeting. He said the Station 3 firefighters might have to be temporarily housed at another station until the new firehouse is fully furnished.  

The Fire Rescue Department did not respond to questions.

On Sunday at 4:55 a.m., officers responded to a report of a suspicious crash at the Bangor Street fire station. Damage was sustained to both the Fire Station structure as well as to a primary rescue vehicle, Lully said.

“There was no one injured during the crash, and the unidentified male suspect fled the location before police could arrive, in a dark colored SUV,” Lully said in a Monday afternoon news release.

Lully said that surveillance cameras at the station captured a white male driving a dark Audi SUV. A photo included in the press release shows minor damage to the rear bumper of a black Audi SUV.