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RIPLEY Members of fire departments who frequently assist the Ripley Hose Co. have expressed their opposition to the proposed South Ripley Solar array project.
Town Supervisor Doug Bowen read letters from the chiefs of North East Fire Department and Stanley Hose Company of Sherman, both of which expressed serious concerns over their ability to respond to an explosion or fire involving the solar array battery storage area.
Dave Meehl, chief of the Crescent Hose Company in North East, sent a letter to Ripley Fire Cheif Mark Smith stating that, after a meeting with Issac Phllips of ConnectGen, “there were a lot of unanswered questions about the safety of this storage of the battery and how to deal with them in an emergency situation.”