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New Fire}. On Friday night. some 300 persons were in attendance to witness the nfficial ribbon cut ting ceremonies at the Saugeen Township Fire Hall, Unfortunately, the opening ‘was delayed by a traffic mishap and most of the firemen were rallsd‘m the scene. Reeve Ale: Lamont 'gave a rundown cm the cost and construction or the building and fire equipment, The building itsett is a wood frame mnstruction with alu- rminium siding. both inside and Dut. It has a rement floor and ‘hnuses a committee room alsu made of a wood'frame and laluminlum siding. It was felt llhot such a construcliun would lbe fireproof. There will be tow trucks housed in the hall. u pumper and a tank truck. The tanker is ptill 50 per cent owned by Port Elgin The pump truck lmd its ‘vasic equipment is frem Sen- igmcs at London and is valued at 543,583. . At present fire calls are directed to the Port Elgin answering service and Kent ‘Milmy (operator or the service) triggers the fire alarm from his own home. At the stand of the alarm. firemen are expected to react instantly. At presenl there are ’17 vdlunteer firemen on the force. ithrre-qusrters of a mile [mm the lull. _â€"-â€"~* all of which livr: within‘ /475‘ It was explained that to date. taunting the truck and the building and all the awessuties, including gasoline and the estimated wages of the firemen. the cost was 581,806.72. The members of the volunteer fire department were commenr -dcd on their :i'forts so get the building ready for the ribbon cutting as thcy had worked cvcry night in their spare time tor a week of completion of the walls. After th: ribbon cutting. them was a dance in the Saugeen Township Hall. with music being provided by Jim Paterson and his Country Gentlemen. Members of the fire depart mEnt include Peter Ens {Chiei}. all Opens Jack hazet. KEHTE- Vaillancourt. Bill Jack, Frank Eagleion. Murray Thede, George Guyer. Ron Kuss. Doug MoNsney. Karl Maas. Rink Aubln. Ron Schcli. Larry Voight, Dung Scarf, Bruce Hunt. Ron Thede and Ken Webb. The pumping unit is capable of pumping 625 gallons at water per minute where available supplies permit and the tanker carries I maximum load of 3.000 gallons. It is estimated. through past recurds. that there Is an average of nine major files per year in the area to be covered by the department. At present. a portion of Snugeen township is under the protection of t .. Paisley tire department. Saugeen 'l'ownship opens new fire hall