The department, alongside the town’s Fire Station Feasibility Study Committee, is looking into an addition or expansion or moving to a new building elsewhere. Experts are doing a feasibility study with $75,000 approved under the town’s capital improvement plan.
Preliminary cost estimates range from $7 million to $9 million, depending if the town needs to buy land, according to the plan. The studies started under former chief Fire Chief David Durgin, who retired in 2015.
The building needs a new heating and cooling system, roof work, and electrical and plumbing improvements.
Parenti said the committee visited a number of different recently opened stations, including ones in Holden, Westborough, Uxbridge, Belmont and Newton.
The station’s community room is now filled with the department workout equipment, because the gym was converted into a dorm. The station does not have accommodations for female firefighters.