Irondequoit Supervisor Dave Seeley and town DPW officials met Monday, working out plans to keep snowplowing and ice control services going this winter after the Christmas Eve fire that the destroyed the town’s maintenance garage on Kings Road.
Seeley tells 13 WHAM the fire destroyed nine of the town’s plow and salt trucks with the winter just getting started. Damage is in the millions, but Seeley says insurance should cover much of it.
Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo says she’s already talked with Seeley and her own public works and highway departments. She says the county will extend everything it can to make sure snow is plowed in Irondequoit while the town tries to make good its losses. The county also issued an email blast to surrounding towns…and Seeley says all have pledged to loan trucks until Irondequoit can make good its losses.
Seeley says the town is grateful…and his staff is now figuring out ways to temporarily replace the offices and other facilities the town’s DPW workers lost in the fire. The town may end up using one of its shuttered branch libraries as a temporary DPW headquarters. The town still owns the land and the buildings, which have been empty since the new central library opened.
