Lennoxville fire station project on track

In the context of a mid-term report presented Monday night on the city’s risk-management plan, Sherbrooke Fire Chief Stéphane Simoneau noted that the construction of a new fire station in Lennoxville this year will go a long way towards improving overall response times not just in the borough, but in the city as a whole. Where the fire department currently estimates that four firefighters can be deployed in five minutes over 68 per cent of the city, the new station stands to raise that by close to ten per cent. In Lennoxville itself, Simoneau said that the “four in five” coverage will increase from 1.4 per cent to roughly 95. See full story in the Thursday, Feb. 22nd edition of The Record.