On July 20th, surveillance video caught someone vandalizing the outside of the Yuba Volunteer Fire Department.

Because this is a volunteer fire department, no one knew this happened until Sunday.

The suspect broke lights, cameras, and an air conditioning unit when they were apparently trying to break in the building.

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.

Station number 6 just off highway 16 has been going through some growing pains.

Jim Bussell - public information officer for the Rapid City Fire Department explains.

"The previous type 3 engine that is now at whispering pines,” Bussell stated. “That had a single cab, and a single bench seat so you could only have three firefighters in it"

This is a problem if your fire station now has 4 people.

City and local fire officials decided to make good on an agreement put together 20 years ago to solve the issue.

In exchange for helping purchase part of the original fire truck in 1998 for station 6, Whispering Pines can now house the engine in their own building, since station 6 now has a 4 seater engine.