Newest Engine Still At Home During Driveway Work

For the past several weeks, the front driveway at has been torn up.

A Danvers Patch user asked whether that meant the engine typically stationed there has to remain outside or be housed at a different station.

The station, on Maple Street across from , is the department’s second station, in addition to the downtown on High Street. Station 2 is home to department’s newest engine, Engine 2, .

The KME-made engine , 45, who passed away in March after a two year fight against melanoma.

The driveway on Station 2 is being repaved . And while the work is being done, Acting Fire Chief James McPherson Jr. said Engine 2 will still be comfortably at home in Station 2.

“There is a rear door at this facility that we are currently using,” McPherson said.