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| FEBRUARY 2022
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Important updates will be posted immediately.
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Last update: Sunday, February 27, 2022 - 1946 hrs
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH
The Samuel Augustus Jones Scholarship
In connection with Black History Month, WFSB reporter Wendell Edwards did this outstanding story on the department's newly established Samuel A. Jones Scholarship, for graduating Hamden High School seniors who wish to pursue a career in EMS and/or firefighting.
Sam was the department's first African-American career firefighter, Appointed in May 1961, he served until his retirement nearly thirty years later. Sam passed away in October 2015, just a few days shy of his 90th birthday.
Edwards interviewed Sam's son Ken, a Fairburn, Georgia career firefighter, as well as Chief Gary Merwede and Firefighter Larry Bowden, who will be mentoring those awarded the scholarships.
Posted 2/24/2022
Revised 4/28/2022
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| 1985 photo of Rescue 2, on a 1980 Chevy Custom DeLuxe chassis - CLICK TO ENLARGE |
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3-Alarm Fire Destroys Warner Street Apartment Building
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
At around 7:00 p.m. Tuesday evening, February 15th, Central Communications dispatched a box assignment to the Fitch-Warner Apartments at 42 Warner Street, where the first arriving apparatus were met with fire coming through the roof. Thew fire was declared under control at 9:51.
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| The New Haven Register, Wednesday, February 16, 2022 |
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This 49-year old pre-fire plan at right provides context to the area. Some of these structures, such as the Kennedy Apartments on Fitch Street, are no longer there.
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Hamden's Two Newest
February 7, 2022 - The department today took the first steps in filling the more than a dozen department vacancies made during 2021 when Firefighter/Paramedics Ryan Shea and Gary Oster were sworn in by Town Clerk Minkens before a crowd of about sixty, including active department members, family, friends, and a few retirees.
CLICK on the photo to read about the ceremony and view more photos.
Posted 2/7/2022
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| Chief Gary Merwede, Firefighter/Paramedics Gary Oster and Ryan Shea, and Mayor Lauren Garrett |
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| This remarkable 1943 photo by Don Steele was scanned from a 35mm slide of Hamden's 1941 Diamond-T ladder truck as it passed by the town hall on Dixwell Avenue. This is the oldest color photograph posted thus far. (Courtesy of the Hamden Historical Society) |
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| The Hamden Chronicle, Thursday, February 7, 1952 - Courtesy of the Hamden Historical Society |
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This photo, taken at Station 4 on Monday, February 4, 1952, was featured in weekly edition of The Hamden Chronicle three days later. The Better Boys Brigade was organized for Hamden's boys to stimulate their interests and to keep them out of trouble. Some features of the pre-2009 renovation of Station 4, like the spiral staircase, can still be seen in this murky 70-year old newspaper photo.
The so-called "modern fire trucks" cited in the photo's blurb, would have been the 1938 and 1939 Diamond-T Emergency Squad and 500 GPM pumper. The boys have climbed aboard the 1938 Emergency Squad, only the top of the cab and an external speaker being visible.
Posted 2/7/2022
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NEVER FORGET!
We will always remember our brother firefighters who made the supreme sacrifice, and the thousands of other innocent victims who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.
Always keep them, their families and the FDNY in your thoughts and prayers.
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