The new $1.8 million station is expected to be finished in mid-May, but construction has been continuing on schedule and could finish sooner, said Dan Brooks, chief of the Winthrop Fire Department, during a tour of the site Tuesday.
So far, a wooden shell of the four-bay station has been raised, with a tower that will be used to dry hoses and train firefighters rising prominently above its roof. On Tuesday, workers were beginning to wire the two-story building for electricity. By January, they hope to install insulation and have a propane heating system running in some of the interior spaces, Brooks said.