Cleveland, Tenn., firefighters responded in December to the Cleveland Chair Factory fire, the largest fire for the city in 2011.CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Big changes are coming to for area firefighters this year.
When the 2012-13 fiscal year begins July 1, the $1.8 million annual payment Bradley County makes to Cleveland for urban area fire protection shrinks to $900,000. One year later the contract will end.
Early in the year, the county’s Fire Board will consider locations for two new fire stations. A third site, on Georgetown Road near Volunteer Energy Cooperative, already is purchased.
“Early in the year there will be recommendations on the other two sites,” County Mayor D. Gary Davis said.
Those sites will be somewhere in the U.S. Highway 64 and Dalton Pike areas, officials said. Construction on all three could begin after July 1, when the new budget year begins.