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With Monday’s official groundbreaking ceremony for Grimsby’s new Regional Training Centre, to be located on Mountain Road at Elm Tree Road, construction of the new $4.6 million facility is now underway. Offi-
cials from Grimsby, Lincoln and West Lincoln, as well as each municipality’s fire departments and the Ontario Fire Marshal’s office turned out for the ceremony. Photo courtesy Bryan Macaulay - Village Studio.
By Mike Williscraft NewsNow With nearly 10 years in the making, construction of Grimsby Fire Department’s training centre was official kicked off Monday with a groundbreaking ceremony at the Mountain Road site. Officials from Grimsby, Lincoln and West Lincoln, the municipality’s respective fire departments and the Ontario Fire Marshal’s in Gravenhurst were all represented.
Aside from the benefits to having a training facility in town for all area departments to utilize, Cain said the changing makeup of the community necessitated this kind of growth. “Faced with the reality of tower cranes and hi-rise construction in the Casablanca neighbourhood, council and Grimsby Fire Department have been challenged with questions pertaining to the future of GFD and the look of local fire protection services,” he said. For Ald. Steve Berry, a firefighter
Fire training centre launches new era “For more than 140 years, Grimsby Fire Department has been providing fire protection services to the community through a volunteer fire protection model,” said Grimsby fire chief Mike Cain. “To believe that the new Station #2 on the Calder site is something dreamt up overnight is simply wrong. The groundbreaking ceremony for Station #2 and Fire Training Centre is the culmination of more than 25 fire chief reports and third party studies that date back to 2007. “
himself, the decision was clear. “Overall, the citizens of Grimsby deserve to be protected by a professional fire service. Most people do not distinguish between career and volunteer but expect the same level of service and the training complex will assist in us delivering a first-class fire service,” said Berry. “People often ask what allows you to make good decisions when under stress in an emergency situation and my first response is training. In the proper format and See TRAINING, Page 3