A concrete floor at the Webster Hose Hook & Ladder Co. #3 on Platt Street began to crumble Monday, Mayor David Cassetti said Thursday.
“When they backed the truck in it all crumbled right underneath the tires,” Cassetti said. “So I told them to pull the trucks out.”
Cassetti said he had two 20-by-10-foot steel plates installed over the floor so it could support the weight of a firetruck that is parked on it.
The mayor said the city engineer, Fred D’Amico, will inspect floors at the rest of the city’s firehouses as a precaution.
The Webster Hose building was built in 1936, Cassetti said, but the concrete floor is about 40 years old.
“The I‑beams underneath are secure, they’re good, they’re in very good shape,” the mayor said.
He said he thinks the floor was worn down by snow and ice melting off firetrucks after winter calls for service.
Ansonia firefighters are currently in the process of deciding what sort of fire facility, if any, will be a part of the city’s new plans for a public safety facility on Olson Drive, which Cassetti announced his intention to build last May.
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