The state fire department will pull down the existing fire stations in Tollygunge and Kalighat and erect new buildings with updated infrastructure in their place.
Fire minister Sujit Bose visited the two fire stations on Tuesday.
Bose told The Telegraph that the buildings from which the fire stations run were in poor condition. The state public works department has declared them as condemned structures, he said.
“We have to shift the operations to nearby buildings so that the existing buildings can be pulled down to enable the construction of new buildings,” said Bose.
The Kalighat fire station will temporarily function from a building opposite the existing fire station, which is an urban primary health centre. Bose said the health centre will run from the ground floor and the fire station will run from floors above it.
The fire tenders will be parked in an adjacent lane.
“In Tollygunge, we have been given a place by power minister Aroop Biswas. The fire station will run from that building during the construction period,” he said.
The new buildings in Tollygunge and Kalighat will have space for parking bikes that are also used for firefighting inside very narrow lanes. At present, the stations do not have dedicated parking space for the two-wheelers.
A new fire station in Howrah is almost ready, Bose said. The chief minister will inaugurate it,” he said.
