The future of Balmossie Fire Station has again been thrown into doubt as the Scottish Fire and Rescue service looks to make £50 million worth of cuts.
The station that serves Broughty Ferry and Monfieth is rumoured to be high on the list of targets for closure after being given a stay of execution in 2009 and 2010.
Local councillor Richard McCready said: “I have very good reason to think the station may be under threat again so I have written to the chief fire officer to warn against cuts to the station.
“Two very clear local democratic decisions have been made with regard to Balmossie Fire Station within recent memory and that it would be a travesty if this issue was revisited in the near future.”
Tayside’s former chief fire officer, Stephen Hunter, previously tried to downgrade Balmossie from full to part-time overnight cover to allow the Forfar station which is busy with fires and road accidents to be upgraded to full-time status.
This would have seenBalmossie manned by a part-time retained crew between 6pm and 8am.
The issue became political and the proposal was narrowly defeated by the Tayside Fire Board.
The downgrading proposal was narrowly defeated at a meeting of the board in March 2010.
A campaign was launched as in 2009 by the FireBrigades Union and local residents against the proposal raised over 5000 signatures.
Opened in December 1982 to replace the old fire station on Brown Street, Broughty Ferry, Balmossie Fire Station is located on North Balmossie Street bordering Monifieth.