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PRECINCT 1 3
GREG MILN E
It is with great sadness and
shock that I learned Monday
of the passing of our friend
and community leader, Paul
Drouin. Ironically, I actually
grew up in the same house
that PaulDrouin did on Owens
Street in Hyannis. He and I
sometimes talked about our
love for that old house. Irecall
the back of the basement door
off the kitchen where marks
were made recording my and
my brothers ' heights during
our very early years right
next to Paul's height marks
when he was a boy. As a kid I
wondered if I'd ever meet the
person whose height marks
preceded mineinthat house....
(my brother wasyounger) and
little did I know then how
much this gentleman would
impress me later in life.
Paul led our Hyannis Civic
Association for the past sev-
eral years as President among
severalvolunteer roles. During
his tenure I witnessed a keen
sense of community com-
mitment to our town and a
diplomacy I admired. Just like
two other community leaders
we've lost this year - Shirley
Flynn and John Rosario-Paul
reallypersonified Hyannisand
The Town of Barnstable.
Many phone calls have oc-
curred due to this very sad and
shocking news one all the
wayfrom Florida, allreminisc-
ing about Paul'sspirit, humor
and legacy. We all will sorely
miss him.
Idea for our Precious
Beaches
Our beaches are our most
valuable physical and eco-
nomic resource. I've felt like
others we could take much
better care of our beaches.
Perhaps not at every beach
but most have felt years of
budget cuts like ah parts of
town. Many have security
issues not existent years ago
as well as maintenance and
capital needs.
The old ways of doing busi-
ness may be inadequat e to
maintain these jewels and
heavy liabilities. Therefore ,
I have suggested in the past
that we explore the possibil-
ity of creating one work-force
housing unit above each of
our bath houses. We could
put out an RFP to interview
the prospective beach man-
ager/caretaker on a private
contract basis to live in the
beach housingwhileproviding
security, maintenance , and
capital improvement work.
The value of the housing
would be part or all of the
person'scompensation. If some
CONTINUED ON PAGE B:8
H
B Hyannis faces
coming request for
new fire station
By Paul Gauvin
pgauvin@barnstablepatnot.com
PAUL tiAUVIN PHUIU
CLOSECALL -HyannisFire Chief Harold Brunellepointsto tight clearance
of inches in the ladder truck bay. Ladders are not used only for height
but laterally to reach buildings with setbacks or in some cases going
over water for boat fires.
Pierre, the 92-year-old lum-
berjack who has not taken a
vacation in 60 years, tells the
Maine Woods Lumber Co.
boss he needs a week off.
The boss is understand-
ably surprised. "Is something
wrong?" he asks.
"It's my fod-deur up in
Canada ," replies Pierre in
perfect Canglish.
"Your father? How old is
your father?"
'" 'e is 121," replies Pierre.
"Is he sick?" asks the boss
with awe and sympathy.
"Oh, no," says Pierre. "' 'e
is getting married."
"Married? Why on earth
does he want to get mar-
ried?"
"Oh, 'e doesn't want to,"
says Pierre proudly, " 'e has
to."
•••
That's about the position
the Hyannis Fire District is
in. Nobody in charge wants
to ask taxpayers to fund a
new fire station , but they
say they have to ask, or be
derelict on their watch. If
district voters don't perceive
aneed, Chief Harold Brunelle
and fire commissioners invite
them to tour the facility built
in 1965 to house four fulltime
people and several pieces of
equipment.
Today, there are 54 fulltime
employees crammed into the
same building and more and
larger modern apparatus
devouring whatever elbow
room there might have been
when it was built. In fact,
the newest fire engine had to
be fitted with sliding doors
to reach equipment while
parked in the station , says
Chief Brunelle.
And the ladder truck has
so little ceiling room that a
firefighter has to constantly
clear snow in front of that
bay so the truck can make
it through the door height-
wise. A few inches make the
difference.
"Asit is,"the chief said, "we
had to modify the rails on the
ladder so the truck would fit
in the building."
Two of the district's three
ambulances (two were out
during this tour) share one
bay at angles because there
is only one door, not an effec-
tive system when emergency
response time means life or
death.
Offices are crammed with
file cabinets holding informa-
tion on nearly every building
in the district and medical
records under lock and key of
all ambulance users, among
other required paraphernalia
of a fast-growing commercial
and residential district.
But nowhere is the lack of
adequate space more evident
than on the main floor housing
apparatus -three fire engines,
three ambulances , a massive
ladder truck, a heavy-rescue
vehicle , a dive team truck, a
smallboat, allfirefighters 'per-
sonal 60 pounds of firefighting
gear hanging in a veritable
maze of free-standing clothes
racks; a washing machine, ice
maker, metal lockers contain-
ing sterile ambulance neces-
sities in the same room where
ambulances and clothing are
decontaminated after each
run.
"Not anideal situation,"the
chief said. Are ambulances
sometimes a mess when they
return from a call? "It can be
nasty," the chief replies.
The repair bay was con-
structed for the smallerengines
of the '40sand '50s.Today,none
of the new, bigger models
fit into the bay and must be
repaired outdoors. Specialty
trailers used for emergencies
also must be stored outdoors ,
the chief said.
"We don't have a female
firefighter/paramedic ," he
said, "not by design but by
circumstance. We tried to
hire one about four years ago
but she got promoted where
she was and decided to stay
there. But even if we did have
a female , where could we put
her," he asks while walking
through the open space dorm
housing a 12-man shift .
None of this wiDbe brought
up when district voters meet
on May 17 but , said commis-
sioner Dick Gallagher, who
chairs the building commit-
tee, there could be a special
meeting later on to consider
the expansion over what is
expected to be a multi-year
process.
CONTINUED ON PAGE B:2
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