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Hamden Fire Retirees
Articles and photos added during
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Regular weekly Friday website updates commenced on April 1, 2011.

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High Standard, 1817 Dixwell Avenue
Thursday, April 29, 1999

Capt. John Spencer - CLICK for more photos (Photos by Jeff Pechmann)
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1982 - Platoon 1 packing hose on Leeder Hill Drive - Ffs. John Calamo (in foreground), John Corbett (at left on tailboard) and Mike Murray (up top) - Photo by John Tramontano
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Hamden's former city service "Hook & Ladder" truck, a 1941 Diamond-T from Woods Engineering, at the 1986 Hamden Bicentennial Fire Muster at Quinnipiac College
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c. 1980 - Firefighters Gaetano "Carmen" Amarante and Paul Reutenauer
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September 9, 1987 - Bassett's Service Station, 3050 Whitney Avenue (Courtesy of Clark Hurlburt) - CLICK for more photos
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c. 1959 - Ff. Stan Brown testing pump on the 1938 Seagrave at Station 2 (Courtesy of Chan Brainard)
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October 5, 1950
 
October 5, 1950 - Fire Chief Raymond C. Spencer congratulates two newly promoted lieutenants and six new firefighters upon their appointments. (L-R): Ff. Lawrence Bellemore, Ff. Richard Lostritto, Ff. Robert Williams, Ff. William Bossoli, Ff. Burton Hillocks, Ff. Thomas Cummins, Lieut. Daniel Hume, Lieut. Emil Strain, and Chief Spencer.
Posted 10/11/09

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July 8, 1969
July 8, 1969 - Hamden Town Clerk Thomas Raccio sweares in (L-R) recruit firefighters Richard Kenyon, Robert Viglione, Gregory Shammett, Ralph Tomaselli, Robert Macauley, John Reilly and Douglas Yocher.
Posted 10/14/09

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1924 Stutz at Company 8
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