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| This photo has no date or location. The 1952 Dodge maintenance truck, being used as a ladder pipe, suggests that it is prior to the December 1958 delivery of the Maxim 75' "Junior" aerial ladder truck. Do any of the real old-timers know anything about this job? (Posted 6/17/11) |
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June 3, 2001
Ten years ago, Bob Mordecai took these photos of a nasty auto accident that demolished a late model Cadillac on Whitney Avenue in Mt. Carmel. This was when the 1990 Pierce aerial ladder truck was running out of Station 5 as "Truck 5." Lieutenants Brian Forsyth and Gary Couture, and Firefighters Ed Emerson, Kerry Castracane, Mike Green, Sam DeBurra, and Gary Greene are some of the personnel who can be identified in these photos.
Posted 6/3/11
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Another Caddy Bites the Dust
c. 1957
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| Photo courtesy of Gil Spencer (Photographer not identified) |
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It's not exactly clear just where in Hamden these photos were taken - looks like it might be State Street. In the photo below, rookie Hamden Police Officer Ed Kopjanski (beside the tree) is among the cops investigating this accident that took out this nearly new 1956 Cadillac convertible Ten years later, Officer Kopjanski later became Firefighter Kopjanski. Ed retired in 1984.
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| Photo courtesy of Gil Spencer (Photographer not identified) |
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| Photo by I.A. Sneiderman |
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This 40-year old photo shows an unidentified Hamden firefighter (with booster line), HPD Sgt. Henry "Dutch" Otto and HFD Lieut. Jack Laffin. The late model Camaro flipped over on Dixwell Avenue at the railroad bridge when the young driver "tried to climb the abutment on left," according to notations on the photo. The young woman driver was pinned inside her car, but was extricated by firefighters who pried open the passenger side door. Posted 5/13/11
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| Early 1950s - Whitney Avenue near Augur Street. (Photo by Chan Brainard) |
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