January 6, 2017
| Wilson Lane Fire
New Firefighter
New Look for Station 2
Mark Pratt
Posterity Project: Platoon 1, Station 2
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January 13, 2017
| 28 Lynmot Road
HFRA Winter Meeting
Password Protected Pages
January 16, 1972: Temple Beth Sholom
January 13, 1954 - 81 Cannon Street
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January 20, 2017
| Firefighter William P. Davin (1942 - 2017)
January 24, 1957: 15 Deaths in Franklin Street Factory Fire
2016 HFD Runs by Company
Camaro Flips on Dixwell
QU Bobcats' First Responders Appreciation Day
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January 27, 2017
| 50 Years Ago: Apollo I Fire Kills Three Astronauts
1972: Repacking Engine 3 Hosebed
1971: Ridge Hill School Alarm System
Astronaut Alan Shepard Visits Ridge Hill School
Spark Time: Hamden's 1959 Maxim Cab-forward Being Built
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February 3, 2017
| NHFD Firefighter Jeffrey K. O'Neil
Morning Blaze Routs Hartford Tpke. Family
75 Years Ago: Blaze Leaves New Road Family Homeless
Stunning Video of Catastrophic Aerial Ladder Failure
Trivia Question
An Homage to 1970's Co. 5 Volies: "Sunny Disposish"
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February 10, 2017
| Buried Hydrants - Residents Please Take Heed!
Grasso to head Sturbridge Fire Department
December 9, 1943: 191 Ridgewood Avenue
Sweet Sixteen Years Ago (Hurst Tool Training)
SparkTime: Wallingford's Wallace Hose Company
Early Steamer on the Way to the Scrap Yard
21 Years Ago: Legit Fire Alarm in Student Apt. Ignored as "Joke"
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February 17, 2017
| 60 Years Ago: 38 Calls in January (1957)
"A Fireman's Lot"
Who Was Wallingford's "One-Eye" Jack Cunningham?
Merritt Street's 1924 Stutz
April, 1976: Firefighters Bob Macauley and Ronnie Altieri at Station 2
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February 24, 2017
| Grasso Leaves HFD to Lead Sturbridge (MA) Fire Department
18 Years Ago: A New Engine 4
A century of service honored this week in 1979
70 Years Ago: Hamden's 1st Fire Company Celebrates 50 Years
47 Years Ago: First Run for Car 55
Platoon 3 very busy 45 years ago this week
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March 3, 2017
| 30 Years Ago: New recruits complete Fire Fighter I
March 2, 1950: Lynn Motors, 925 Dixwell Avenue
1960: The First "Rescues"
Bethany's Chief George Quinn Named to CSFA Fire Hall of Fame
Chief Raymond C. Spencer's helmet, from the collection of Chan Brainard
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March 10, 2017
| Lieut. Charles Lubowicki, Jr. Named Training Officer
Mike Ambriscoe Retiring (Again)
70 Years Ago: Fire destroys plans for the Wilbur Cross Parkway
March 12, 1959: Snuff's warning saved his family in the middle of the night
March 1959: HFD Apparatus Inventory
1982: Ff. Ralph Dievert at Station 2, Platoon 4
c. 1960: Ff. Stan Brown
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March 17, 2017
| Davenport Redux - Fire on 3rd Floor
St. Patrick's Day at HQ
2009 Scania Water Ladder Appliance of Dublin Fire Brigade
1978: Ff. Guy White in Truck 2 at Station 3
Happy March 17th Birthday, Dan Murphy!
Lieut. Frank Eitler - A Good Man!
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March 24, 2017
| 1958: Ff. Joe McDermott and New Aerial Ladder Truck
December 2001: Ff. Kevin O'Hare, Capt. Don LaBanca and
Ff. Ray Dobbs at Station 9
February 22, 1942: Everett's Farm Burns
1974: Dispatcher Ff. Wilbur Baker in the Alarm Room
1957: Co. 9 Obtains Old One-Room Schoolhouse
1980: Foam at Y-Camp
This week in 1955: Connecticut Fire Chiefs Meet in Hamden
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March 31, 2017
| April 1, 1957: "Open Burning" Starts Barn Fire Behind 2989 Whitney Avenue
March 31, 1963: Barn Fire on Manila Avenue
April 5, 1967: Zukel Realty, 3383 Whitney Avenue
March 30, 2017: 154 Towne House Road
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April 7, 2017
| April 1942: The beginning of the modern Hamden Fire Department
Firefighter Jay Connolly, Jeff Stoehr, Lieut. Rob "Maddog"
Madigosky, and John Bellmore - Reunion at 9's
December 1995: Harold and T.D.
c. 1988: Station 2 Crew
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April 14, 2017
| Hedges and Tavaras Honored at Local 2687 Retirement Dinner
1942: New Arrival
HFRA Spring Meeting
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April 21, 2017
| Chatham Colleagues Fete Mike Ambriscoe at Retirement Dinner
A Visit with Jack Laffin
Auto-in-Lake Rescue Caps Crazy Week for HFD
Smoking the Cause of Two Blazes
Tuesday Fire in QU's Whitney Village Apartments
April 1952: Hamden Ffs Extricate 4-year old from Chair
April 16, 1947: Worst Fire Department Disaster of the 20th Century
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April 28, 2017
| HFD's 1942 H&L in 1986 Bicentennial Parade
Electrical fire on house exterior captured on video
1930: Co. 5's "Patrol Wagon"
35 Years Ago: Central Dispatcher Marge Gambardella (Yacano)
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May 5, 2017
| Peace Officers Memorial Day
Leeder Hill Drive before it was Leeder Hill Drive
May 1982: Rescue 1 with Firefighter/Paramedics Bob Surprise
and Howie Hurlburt, Jr.
Another Look Back: Co. 5 Basement in 1973, After Renovation
1981: Our SCUBA Team - Another Car in the Lake
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May 19, 2017
| May 19, 1957: Civil Defense Exercise at Groton
May 10, 2017: Townhouse Road Condo Fire
E8 (HFD) and E8 (NHFD) on Stand-by at 2's
1953: Brown Stone House ad from The Hamden Chronicle
c. 1951: Emergency Squad Preparing to Leave Fennbrook Drive
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May 26, 2017
| Memorial Day 1973
"Tribute to America" (YouTube)
Alarm Readiness in 1963: "I bid 4!"
Memorial Day 1954
Hamden's World War II Honor Roll
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June 2, 2017
| June 2, 1960: Electrical Storms Damage Many Area Buildings
35 Years Ago: June 1982 Flood
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June 9, 2017
| 65 Years Ago: New pumper "too big for Station 6" - or was it?
Remember Flag Day
May 1, 1968: Maselli Fireplace Center, 3547 Whitney Avenue
"Car 30, 10-1!"
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June 16, 2017
| 1942: Whitneyville Co. 3's Memorial Day March
1939: Hamden's 1926 Maxim City Service Ladder Truck
June 20, 1963: Rite Box Co., 2317 Whitney Avenue
1977: "The Fire Line" - EMS
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June 23, 2017
| Civilian Cited by Commission
New Haven County Fire Emergency Plan June Meeting
35 Years Ago: Career and Volunteer Firefighters Recognized for Flood Efforts
Okay Gang, just where was this photo taken 75 years ago?
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June 30, 2017
| Remembering Lieut. Frank Eitler on His Centennial
D/C Hume's Fire Quiz: "No cheating, boys!"
"El Presidente" Corbett
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Summer 2017 Bulletin Board
| Donations to Help Victims of Harvey Flooding
Announcement: Connecticut’s Annual 9/11 Memorial Ceremony
Announcement: 2017 (46th Annual) Engine 260 Muster
Off-Duty Hamden Firefighter Pulls Inured Driver From Burning Auto
Firefighters Rescue Dog from Cliff
New Engine 5 - a Quint
Video: E5's 1st Run
1930: Mt. Carmel's New Pumper
Mutual Aid: 68 Maple Avenue, North Haven
House Fire: 4400 Whitney Avenue
Announcement: "Closer to Free"
Announcement: Local 2687 Golf Tournament
35th Meeting of the HFRA Well Attended
Hamden's Newest Apparatus is Here!
28 YEARS AGO!: Hamden Tornado, Monday, July 10, 1989
November 20th publication date for Hamden Firefighting
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September 8, 2017
| 2017 (46th Annual) Engine 260 Muster
19th Century Hamden Helmet Brought to Station 2
September 9, 1987: Bassett's Getty Service Station, 3050 Whitney Avenue
65 Years Ago: Chief Spencer and His Cigars
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September 15, 2017
| 1977: Hamden Fire Department Apparatus Inventory
1979: Labor Daze - "Stagflation"
September 17, 1979: Hamden Firefighters Protest Town's Intransigence
Engine 260: 2017
American-LaFrance's FIRST!
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September 22, 2017
| Newest Officer Sworn In Before Huge Crowd
July 22, 1974: Mix Avenue Fire Goes to 3 Alarms
Another View of Engine 4, "The Foam Truck"
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September 29, 2017
| 60 YEARS AGO: Mrs. Flagge's first day on the job
Fred Fletcher Jr. - Obituary
1982: Training at the Quarry
Ancient Station 5 telephone equipment donated to Connecticut Fire Museum
Flags Lowered to Half-Staff for Victims of Las Vegas Tragedy
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October 6, 2017
| Firefighter Edward C. Doiron (1938 - 2017)
36th Annual National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend
Announcement: HFRA Autumn Meeting
October 1962: Chief Leddy Fights to Enhance Department Strength
c. 1965: Blake and McKee at 2's
1924: Whitney and Dixwell
1962: Fire Prevention Week
1987: Fire Prevention Week
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October 14, 2017
| HFRA Autumn Meeting
Three Brother Firefighters Remembered
Rev. Sanderson's Milestone
October 18, 1972: Tech Plywood, 1041 Dixwell Avenue
May 29, 1978: Ray Reilly and Guy White
April 1982: Supt. Richie Lostritto and Ff. Bob Mordecai
Camaro Flips on Dixwell (Again!)
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October 20, 2017
| 1977: Whitneyville Apartment Explosion
Tomaselli Recognized for Explosion Rescue Efforts
Newton Street House Fire
Serious Route 15 Accident
1974: Training at Centerville School
Chief Alan Brunicini Passes
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October 27, 2017
| 1967: Laying Wire Below Dixwell Avenue
1963: Remember Those Indian Tanks?
1981: Platoon 1, Station 2
1982: Three Girls Lost on Mountain
1986: Bob Mordecai, Ed DeFrancesco, and Ralph Purificato
Historical Society's Giant Valley Antiques Show
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November 3, 2017
| Valley Road House Fire Routs Three
60 Years Ago at Dunbar Hill
Tale of Two 1942 Diamond-T Pumpers
1987: Hamden's First Female Career Firefighter
Kidde Extinguisher Recall
1947: Broadway House Destroyed by Fire
Voter Numbers Picked "on the Nose"
Wind Damage All Over Hamden
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November 10, 2017
| Hamden Firefighting Available on November 18th at 9's
1957: Eastern Atlantic Lumber Company
1967: Fire Guts House on Hamden-New Haven Line
1977: Fire/Police Arson Squad Proposed
Spark Time: 1946 Darley Pumper
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November 17, 2017
| Thanksgiving 1967: Fireside Restaurant
November 14, 1960: Leddy Appointed Chief
November 7, 1962: Mt. Carmel Railroad Station
Rescued Firefighter Tells His Story
Spark Time: 1916 Seagrave Model J straight-frame tiller Ladder Truck
Film of Straight-frame tiller truck in action
Hamden Firefighting Now Available
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November 24, 2017
| November 20, 2017: 220 Garvin Road
November 23, 2017: 132-34 Shepard Street
November 28, 1987: Shirley Mangler Preserves HFD History
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December 1, 2017
| November 26, 2017: Regency Hills Condos
January 1976: Regency Hills Condos
December 4, 1982: Ff./Paramedic Edward Charbonneau
Black Mourning Buntings: A Forgotten HFD Tradition
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December 8, 2017
| Firefighter/Paramedic Christopher R. Parmelee Sworn In
December 10, 1927 - Ff. Edward Meegan Killed in Pumper Crash
December 10, 2012 - Meegan's Sacrifice Honored
1937 - Mack "Bulldog" Goes for a Dip
December 11, 1961 - Wetmore, LaVelle, & Patten Appointed
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December 15, 2017
| December 5, 2017: 1047 Whitney Avenue
Great-grandson's Tribute to Co. 7 Ff. Leonard Dorman
1925 Seagrave Dedication Plate Acquired
1971: Station 6 All Through
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December 22, 2017
| December 23, 1957: $100K Fire at Hamden Plaza
Christmas 1953 at 5's: Laffin and Fletcher
Christmas 1951: "Santa Buggy" at 5's
Christmas 1947: Town Hall Decorations
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December 29, 2017
| December 28, 2017: 103 Carleton St. - A Cautionary Tale
CT Opts into FirstNet Network
Transitions 2017: Those We Lost, Retirements, Promotions, & New Faces
Snippets of '17
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