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Norwich Fire's Squad A engine was built in 2001, and regularly goes out of service. Union president and chief are calling for a plan to replace it.

It is important that I respond to Mr. Norm Crume's opinions about committee appointments, funding the police and fire departments, the combined goal of law enforcement and the city to

The recently-released Fire Study done by Municipal Services recommends adding a fourth, new Fire Station as the City continues to grow, but controversially also suggests re-purposing the recently-renovated Central Fire Station into an EMS, or ambulance, outpost. The Fire Study came out earlier this month from Donald Bliss, former New Hampshire Fire Marshal and owner of Municipal Services, and made 65 recommendations, of which only a fraction were controversial. The hope, Bliss said at a meeting two weeks ago, was to provide a roadmap forward as the City and its Fire Service continues to evolv...

Published June 14. 2021 12:01AM  When will Norwich officials learn? Currently, taxpayers in the town district pay their own taxes, .32 mills for volunteer fire protection, and another $3,299,876 for the overbudget Norwich Fire Department, which directly violates the “Special Benefit” described in the City Charter. Volunteers protect 87% of Norwich (and 9 out of the 10 top taxpayers!) and handled 2,852 calls for only $642,980 last year, while the paid department covered 13% of Norwich with only 2,404 calls for $10,071,521. The $3.29 million diverted from the Norwich Public Utilities cont...

Jun. 10—NORWICH — Volunteer fire chiefs, members of the five volunteer fire departments and a few resident taxpayers blasted the proposal to create a fire services director position during the City Council Public Safety Committee meeting Wednesday, calling it unnecessary, expensive and "totally ludicrous." The three aldermen on the committee, led by 12-year veteran alderman and former police ...