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Articles and photos added during
March 2010
Regular weekly Friday website updates commenced on April 1, 2011.
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| Following the swearing in, Deputy Chief Surprise poses with wife, Debbie, and children Liza and Kevin. CLICK for article and more photos. (Photo by Bob Mordecai) |
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| Engine 3 - 1973 Maxim Telesqurt |
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| 35 Years Ago
Saturday, March 1, 1975 in Shelton - the great Sponge Rubber Co. Fire - Hamden's Engine 3 Telesqurt is among many out of town fire apparatus to respond on mutual aid. Shelton's 1938 Ahrens-Fox piston pumper, drafting from the Housatonic River, supplied Engine 3 and several other pumpers.
Posted 3/1/10
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| October 31, 1982 |
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| 30 Years Ago!
Mountain Rescue Team
Sunday, October 31, 1982
When three Branford teenagers got lost after dark on Sleeping Giant State Park, HFD's Mountain Rescue Team was called in. Fortunately, the kids turned up after police dogs located them only a short distance from the ranger station.
WTNH Channel 8 News covered the incident. Several of the Mountain Rescue Team members, including Chick Manware, Tony Melillo, John Tramontano and Ed Charbonneau, can be seen in the news report.
Posted 3/26/10
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| Lt. Bill "Salty" Marak |
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| Richie Lostritto - March 22, 1954 |
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| c. 1942 |
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| Swearing in Lieuts. Esposito and LaBanca (1984) and Mechanic Melillo (1987) |
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| Bob Macauley, Bob Anthony and Jimmy Dunlop - 1991 |
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| May 24, 2000 - Station 9 - Ff. Ray Dobbs, Capt. Bob Viglione and Ff. Kevin O'Hare (Photo by Bob Mordecai) |
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| CLICK on this photo to read more about "Belle," the 1940s mascot of Station 3. (Courtesy of Chan Brainard) |
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December 8, 1984
Smoke House Training At Wallingford Fire Headquarters
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| Photo by John Tramontano |
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In conjunction with Fire Fighter I certification for all Hamden career and volunteer personnel, the Wallingford Fire Department kindly offered the use of their training tower and smoke house over the next few months. This was the first group of career personnel. From the clean appearance of everyone in the photo above, it was obviously shot before interior firefighting activies began. More photos from this particular exercise will be posted in the near puture.
Standing (L-R): Ff. Chick Manware, FF. Badamo, Ff. Charlie Cargan, Ff. Tom Hart, Ff. Ray Ramelli, Ff. Frank Kafka, Ff. Dave McDermott, Ff. Augie Williams, Ff. Paul Petrillo, Ff. Gerry Dinneen, Ff. Brian Forsyth, Capt. Dave Johnson, Ff. Ralph Tomaselli, and Lt. Frank Critchett.
Kneeling: Ff. Tom Conway, Lt. Jack Calamo, and Ff. Paul Wetmore, Jr. The fellow hidden Manware on the left is Asst. Supt of Alarms Paul Wetmore, Sr.
Posted 3/27/10
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Water Rescue Training - 1966
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| ". . . and don't come back 'til ya catch a trout this long." |
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This photo, dated June 9, 1966, was captioned "Refresher Course in Water Rescue." It looks like the location might be Lake Whitney near Greenway Street. In the boat are Ff. Milner Benham and Lt. Bill Hines. On shore (L-R) are Dep. Chief Training Officer Daniel Hume, Lt. Daniel O'Connell, Ffs. Art Heriot, Paul Wetmore, Sr., Paul Reutenauer, and Gilbert Spencer. The photographer is not known.
Posted 3/12/10
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| October 31, 1981 - When visiting the credit union at town hall, retired deputy chiefs Joe Hromadka (in hat) and Ken Harrington often stopped in at Station 4. They are pictured here in the Alarm Room less than three weeks before fire dispatch operations were moved to the new Central Communications. Ff. Jim Koutopolos is in the doorway at left. |
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