Firefighters spent the day Tuesday moving back into fire stations that have been closed for more than a year. At Station Number 5 on West Tuscarawas Street, an Engine Company returning to the building for the first time since January 21st of last year.
The same at Station Number 6 on the city's east side. Three stations re-opening as part of a plan to improve response times. But the plan does not increase the number of firefighters or their equipment, it simply shuffles the existing numbers, spreading them out over more locations.
"The benefit is somewhere in the city it will at least decrease our response times by some type of help arriving rather than have them cluster in the middle," said Canton Fire Chief Thomas Garra.