Last summer, some Melbourne residents thought they'd won the battle to stop a new fire station from being built in a neighborhood park.
They were wrong. Nine months after the city decided to look elsewhere to build a fire station, they are revisiting it.
“If our community would rather us be somewhere else, then, that’s what the council has to decide,” Fire chief Shane Leetch told WKMG.
Officials also are looking at another site about a mile down the road from the park. But, it would have to buy the property.
The new station would replace the 60-year-old structure near the park.
“Here we are back to square one," said Denise Ketchum, a resident who enjoys looking at the park from her house.
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Susan Nicol is the news editor for Firehouse.com. She is a life member and active with the Brunswick Volunteer Ambulance & Rescue Company, Oxford Fire Company and Brunswick Vol. Fire Co. Susie has been an EMT in Maryland since 1976. Susie is vice-president of the Frederick County Fire/Rescue Museum. She is on the executive committee of Frederick County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association. She also is part of the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS) Region II EMS Council. Susie is a board member of the American Trauma Society, Maryland Division. Prior to joining the Firehouse team, she was a staff writer for The Frederick News-Post, covering fire, law enforcement, court and legislative issues.