Cambridge Mayor Marc McGovern toured three of the city’s eight firehouses June 6, calling the conditions at Monday’s City Council meeting “extremely disturbing.”
Firefighters were sleeping on mattresses with holes. Floors were being held together by duct tape. Some stations didn’t have carbon monoxide detectors or Wi-Fi, McGovern said.
Seeing the conditions in those fire houses -- Station Two at Lafayette Square, Station Nine on Lexington Avenue, and Station One at the Broadway headquarters -- prompted the mayor to call for a facilities survey of all buildings. McGovern was told the state of these three facilities was representative of conditions across the department, according to a follow-up email with McGovern’s chief of staff, Wil Durbin.
“These folks deserve much better,” McGovern said.