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January 3, 2014


Letitia M. Flagge (1913 - 2014)
HFRA Winter Meeting
"Hands on" Chief Tramontano Trained His Troops
1956 Dawns with a Nasty Cold Weather Fire
Cmdr. Jack Laffin and Ff. Gary Couture
Firefighter John Corbett

January 10, 2014


Many Hands Make Light Work 
January HFRA Meeting Photos
1988:  Ffs. Ray Ramelli and Mike Murray
"We Remember 2014" Video Now on YouTube

January 17, 2014


Gary Merwede Named Deputy Fire Chief
40 Years Ago HFD Goes Diesel
Firefighters Saved a Classic Hamden Eatery
January 1965:  Another Hamden Restaurant Bites the Dust
1944:  Purce Named Fire Marshal
1939 Diamond-T Dedication Plaque

January 24, 2014


Deputy Chief Gary Merwede Sworn In
Another Mystery Photo
IMPROMPTU REUNION - CLASS OF '78

January 31, 2014


Honorary Member Nancy Saccani Hurlburt
Ralph & Ralph
100 Years Ago:  Coutts Brothers
Coutts Brothers' Whitneyville Badges Donated
1850s Fire Tower
"History" is today, too
Changing Hose on Engine 9
January 31, 1959:  North Haven Brick Co.
Photo No Longer a Mystery

February 7, 2014


California Firefighter Meets Barney Fife
July 1973:  Station 5
Mt. Carmel School
1974:  Sick Benefit Assn. Elects New Officers
1982:  Laying Supply Lines Before LDH
February 9, 1944:  Belle's Blessed Event at Station 3
February 9, 1964:  Home Inspections During Ed Sullivan(?)
Barletta Honors Presidents Day with Historic U.S. Flag

February 14, 2014


Firefighter Hugh McLean, Jr. (1924 - 2014)
July 31, 1987:  Superior Printing Ink Co.
February 15, 1954:  Moose Hall, 961 Dixwell
February 15, 1954:  622 Newhall Street
Retirement Dinner Announcement
Patches to Trade?

February 21, 2014


February 20, 1944:  Church Street School Fire
Firefighter's Wife Saves Children (Newscast)
Laying Supply Lines Before LDH - Pt. 2
Memorial Plaque to Commissioner William D. Daymon
1954:  Firemen Present Sterilizers to VNA

February 28, 2014


1962:  Firefighters Gathered at Hull's Rathskellar
1888:  Fire at Hull's Brewery
Hull's Breweriana
Box 22's New Haven Firefighters
Fire Districts Proposed 50 Years Ago
Bowling at Whitneyville 60 Years Ago
Meanwhile, Upstairs at Station 3

March 7, 2014


"It's Bo-Bo Time!"
New Haven's Hull's Brewery:  Two Fires, 90 Years Apart
Fishing for a squirrel?
April 1988 - Repair Shop Crew

March 14, 2014


Old Third Platoon Demonstrates "The Net"
Leddy Stressed Inadequacies, Urged Improvements
1957:  Corey's Wayside Market Fire - Before & After
December 1, 1983 Roster - 118 Line Personnel

March 21, 2014


March 25, 1971:  132 Santa Fe Avenue
March 14, 1977:  New Haven Parks Dept., Park Road
Happy Birthday, Rev. Sanderson
March 25, 1957:  Co. 9 Gets Old Schoolhouse
CERT - The New & Improved EM44

March 28, 2014


1949:  The Carwin Chemical Co.
1962:  Fuel Oil Leaks into Lake Whitney
1941:  Hamden's 1926 H&L vs. Trolley
1963:  Diamond-T Ladder Truck Sold!
1966:  "There, but for that telephone pole, go I"

April 4, 2014


The HFRA started with an Invitation
HFRA Spring Quarterly Meeting
'73 Maxim at Station 9 sometime in the late 1980s
1964:  "Search and Communications Drill"
1964:  Stan Brown photo of Station 2
Mark Pratt driving Engine 2 to the Shop
January 1, 1999 Roster

April 11, 2014


HFRA Spring Meeting
Whistles Replaced Sirens During WWII
2014 Local 2687 Annual Dinner
Newest Firefighter Sworn In
BMW + Fire Hydrant = PRICELESS!

April 18, 2014


1984:  "Hamden at Work"
1979:  Altieri and Mulcahy at Station 2
1969:  Mill River Water Rescue at Ives Street
Seasonal Delivery for the Kids

April 25, 2014


April 30, 1984:  An end to one era; start of another
HFD's Mountain Rescue Team 30 Years Ago
Fire Commissioners Name V. Paul Leddy Chief
Reynolds Jaycees "Outstanding Fireman of 1974"
1979:  Lt. John Tramontano at Station 2

May 2, 2014


Lt. Bill Fitzmaurice / Prescher Photo Bombs Chase
100 Years Ago:  The Humphrey Drum Corps
ROBBIE'S JAM
May 2, 1964:  West Todd near Hillfield
May 7, 1974:  Driverless NoHFD Engine Takes Off

May 16, 2014


1949:  The Center of Hamden
Fireworks Fundraiser
May 1967:  Lt. Joe McDermott at old Station 3
The Hamden Chronicle
May 21, 1977 at Station 3

May 23, 2014


Whitneyville Badge Donated by Member's Daughter
c. 1930:  Merritt Streeet Volunteers Parade Ready
May 1964:  This Week's Special a 1961 Caddy (Slightly Used)

May 30, 2014


Firefighter Joseph Yoga (1942 - 2014)
Fire School Sixty Years Ago
2014:  Memorial Day
Hamden's WWI and WWII Rolls of Honor
1970:  Memorial Day
War Vet & Hamden Vol. Alumnus now a Lt. in SC Fire Dept.

June 6, 2014


June 6, 1944:  Remembering the Fallen
June 8, 1969:  Hamden's "Firemen's Field Day" (video)
Haz-Mat Highway to Hell Video
June 2, 1969:  O'Connell's Lawn Mower Shop

June 13, 2014


Website 5th Anniversary
1943:  First Color Apparatus Photo
June 14th is FLAG DAY
August 29, 1958:  Wallace-Davis Company
1898:  Whitney and Dixwell Avenues

June 20, 2014


Hamden's Forgotten Fire Company
Grave Markers - Once a Tradition
1946:  Firemen Want Shorter Week
Fireworks Next Week
1954:  1930 Maxim on State Street

June 27, 2014


Hamden's Forgotten Fire Company - Pt. 2
The North Hamden Fire Company
July 1, 1974:  Change of Radio Designations
Ffs. Carmen Amarante and Jim Moore assist student CPR training
1973 Maxim Telesqurt
1924:  Apparatus Inventory

July 11, 2014


2014 Summer Meeting
July 10, 1989:  TORNADO - 25th Anniversary
Various TV News Accounts, Past & Present
Souvenir for Service
Commemorative T-Shirt
Day After the Hamden Tornado
Sears Building Proved a Safe Haven in '89
July 7 2014:  11 Notkins Street
Remember this guy?
2014 FIREWORKS!

July 25, 2014


Two New Hamden Firefighters
July 27, 2014:  Nasty Apartment Fire at Dogwood Hills
Fundraiser for Pregnant Firefighter/EMT with ALS
1938 Diamond-T "Emergency Squad"
Birthday at Station 3
1976:  Supt. of Alarms & Apparatus Richie Lostritto
c. 1962:  Ffs. Paul Reutenauer and Milner Benham
1984 Pierce at Station 3
1960:  Hamden Civil Defense
1963:  Fire Department Softball

August 8, 2014


A Visit from An Old Friend
Another Jack?
August 8, 1962:  1708 Dixwell Avenue - Spectacular Blaze
1947:  Station 3
1961-65:  Apparatus Inventory

August 22, 2014


November 4, 1987:  Platoon 4, Station 3
1949:  Humphrey Station Turned Over to Town
May 1991:  Lt. Howie Hurlburt, Jr.
Substitute Firefighters
1932:  Dextone Fire - Worst Hamden Financial Fire Loss

September 5, 2014


Hamden's New 1990 Ladder Truck
1966:  Field Day Photo
1963:  Winchester Powder Farm Fire Training
1966:  Fatal Corvair Crash at Carmel & Whitney
1980:  Engine 260 - Christie Tractor Steamer Pumping

September 12, 2014


2014:  Engine 260 Muster Photos
1941:  Diamond-T Ladder at New Milford & Elsewhere
1984:  Saxony Coat Company Fire
1960s:  Apparatus on Kaye Vue Drive

September 19, 2014


Calling All Maxims! - Maxim Centennial
Hamden's 15 Maxims
Other Connecticut Maxims (Branford)
Local 2687 Annual Golf Tournament
35 Years Ago Hamden FFs Picket Town Hall
Old Station 3 Days Remembered - BOWLING!
September 24, 1964:  Station 6 Register Article & Photo

September 26, 2014


October Quarterly Meeting to Honor Deceased Members
September 1970:  New Officers
1982:  D/C Tramontano in Central Communications
Pump Acceptance Test for 1926 Pumper
Another Connecticut Maxim: Branford
Honorary Member Geraldine Bourneuf Tobin

October 3, 2014


Hamden's First Retirement Plan 65 Years Ago
Brainard at HQ: 1954 - 2014
Station 9 Today
New Rescue 1 at Station 4
Cheshire's 1913 Ford

October 10, 2014


Hartford Firefighter Dies in the Line of Duty
HFRA Honors Memories of Ten of Their Own
2015 HFRA Officers Elected
By-law Change Proposed to Lengthen Terms
October 1950:  First HFD Chaplains Appointed
Darien's 1949 Ward-LaFrance Quad

October 17, 2014


Trench collapses on 4 workers at SCSU; HFD responds with Tactical Rescue Unit
Sixties Station Scenes Served as Student's Snapshot Subjects
House of Heroes - Connecticut
HFD Conducts a Fire Extinguisher "In Service"
Nice looking Mack pumper
Links to media coverage of the plaque presentations

October 24, 2014


The Gov Visits 3s!
IAFF General Prez Addresses Local 2687 Members at 3s
The "Repair Shop"
October 24, 1951:  Mysterious Fire
1990s Photos of Station 2 Apparatus
1974 New Haven Columbus Day Parade

October 31, 2014


Update Dedicated to Ff. Sidney Trower (1915 - 2011)
Aerial View of Hamden Plains
BOO!
c. 1960:  Alarm Room
1958:  Platoon 1 Aerial Ladder Crew
Seymour's Seagrave Quint

November 7, 2014


1984:  Seven New Officers Promoted
Two late 1984 Rosters
November 1999:  Tower One Training
1973 Aerial Ladder Practice
Southington's 1959 Open Cab Cab-Forward Maxim
Mystery Dispatcher:  Bantz or Benham?

November 14, 2014


Two Veterans Retiring
November 11, 1957:  Eastern Atlantic Lumber Yard
A Tale of Two Hats
Fooling Around at the Firehouse? Never!
1910s:  Mount Carmel
"America's Best" by James Foley (HPD Ret.)

November 21, 2014


Firfighter Dennis Baker
Trash Truck Catches Fire
1964:  Lieut. Luke Tobin
1961:  HFD Ball Program
1968:  Firemen's Ball
West Haven's Maxim Open Cab Aerial Ladder Truck

November 28, 2014


Saying "Goodbye" to Buechele and Harrison
1967:  Fireside Restaurant
1967:  Department Inventory
1973:  Leonard Pipe Fire
West Haven Maxim Aerial Ladder - Year Clarified

December 5, 2014


1964:  Weather Vane Restaurant
1984:  Fire Training at Wallingford
Ff. Jim Dunlop Gives Youngster Tour of Truck

December 12, 2014


Marshal and Lieutenant Promotions
1964:  Dramatic Below Grade Rescue
Firefighters Honored for Below Grade Rescue
Ball Program Advertisers Share Dubious Distinction
Studebakers!

December 19, 2014


MERRY CHRISTMAS!
1968:  Platoon 2, Station 4
2014:  Platoon 2, Station 4
Chief Tramontano Visits 4s
Classic 1935 Ford Chief's Car
Chief Leddy Inspects His Final Order
HFD Featured in IAFF Magazine
Website photo rekindles fond memory of old pick-up truck
Cargan, McDermott, Dinneen & Petrillo at WFD
1983:  Christmas Party Pix

December 26, 2014


Hamden Elks' Firefighter of the Year Dave Beaton
1964:  Reilly's Restaurant Fire
1984:  Westervelt First Asst. Marshal Sworn In
1965:  Ffs. John O'Hare and Charlie Esposito
O'Hare's Classic Chrysler
"Batman's" Batty Christmas Ornament
Jeanne McLean Obituary (and Link)

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