Hartford Common Council recently approved the capital construction of a second fire house in Hartford.

The second fire station would be a satellite station in Hartford. It will be located on 4.5 acres of land on Highway K, near the Town of Hartford Hall. The location was purchased to strategically reduce emergency response times and cover the city's east side.

Hartford Fire and Rescue Chief Tony Burgard discussed the strategy with Hartford's Common Council.

"Everything that we have with response time is built on what if situations, whether we have personnel coming out of the station and what if we are using paid on call members responding from home to the station. Our hot spot map that we developed shows around fifty percent of our call volume was east of North Wilson. So everything on that side could easily be serviced by a station located at this proposed site."

An $800,000 grant for the construction of the second fire house was approved. It will add to the total reduction in cost, along with a $144,000 grant from Washington County and the estimated sale of Engine 1660 for $90,000. The total reduction is $1,034,000.