Westchester County Firehouse Condemned for Being Unsafe

Usually, firefighters are the ones helping to get people out of unsafe buildings. In Yonkers, however, the firefighters needed the rescuing.

City engineers have stepped in and condemned the Yonkers department’s firehouse house on New School Street, because the old building is in danger of collapsing, reports News 12 Westchester.

“It’s an unhappy day for the members of this fire company because the fear is that this firehouse will be condemned and never replaced,” Yonkers Fire Union President Barry McGoey told News 12. “And we want to make sure that if it is condemned that it will be replaced.”

The fate of the 88-year-old structure, whether to renovate or demolish it, has not yet been determined, according to The Journal News.

Officials condemned the building because it shows cracks in the parapet and in sections of its exterior walls. Crews were moved to nearby station houses on Saturday.

“We knew that the building was in some state of disrepair,” Assistant Fire Chief Thomas Fitzpatrick told The Journal News. “But we didn’t know it was so bad that we would have to vacate.”

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