The new Winthrop Fire Headquarters will be a three-story, 28,000-square-foot facility featuring a steel frame and masonry exterior. The station will be centrally located on the site of the former Winthrop Middle School on Pauline Street replacing the outdated and inadequate headquarters, originally constructed in 1904. This new, energy-efficient firefighting facility is designed to significantly enhance firefighter health, safety and operations, as well as fully serve the city’s current and foreseeable future department needs. Key features include a properly sized apparatus bays, capable of accommodating today’s larger firefighting equipment. The new building will also incorporate firefighter decontamination facilities, with separate hot and cold zones, a critically important feature for separating living quarters from areas that may be exposed to fumes and other air-borne and solid contaminants.
