Firefighters Fear

4 Stories Too Tall

For Hampton Inn

Will Coop, Oneonta Departments

Provide Ladder Trucks? Planners Ask

By PAT WAGER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

HARTWICK – Emotional firefighters shared their worries about a proposed Hampton Inn & Suites’ four-story building with the Hartwick Town Planning Board this evening

“I’m one of the ones who will be entering the building if something happens,” declared Chris Doucas, Hartwick Company #2 first assistant fire chief.  “ I think that what I have to say should count since I may die.  We have to worry about our families.”

For at least two months now, Hartwick firefighters have been voicing their concerns about the building’s height, and also about having to rely on a ladder truck from either the Cooperstown or Oneonta fire departments if the hotel is built that high and a fire were to break out there.