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Board interviewing
for fire chief
The
directors at the Wake Forest Fire Department are a week or more away from
choosing a fire chief.
“”We’re down to three [applicants],”
board chairman Stanley Denton said Tuesday. “We’re going to interview them
again next week and make our selection.”
Deputy Chief David Davis has been
acting as the interim chief since April when the fire board directors and then-Chief
Jerry Swift reached an agreement and he resigned.
Denton also said the department hopes
to be able to start construction on station #3 in October. It will be on the
four acres on Forestville Road the department purchased last year. The plan
then was to use the existing brick house for the station but they were not able
to properly refit the house for a station.
The plans for station #4 are up in the
air, dependent on the plans for the Wake Union Place shopping center at the end
of Wake Union Church Road where it meets Capital Boulevard. Those plans may go
to the Wake Forest Planning Board this summer or fall.
Developer Jim Adams had pledged to
provide a site for the station to serve the west side of town and the area in
the Wakette fire district along N.C. 98 and Thompson Mill Road. The last time
the plans for the shopping center were seen was at a public meeting earlier
this year, and the fire station was on an unnamed extension of Wake Union
Church Road and between that road and Kearney Road.
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