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Established
in 1961
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It
all Started in the year 1960 with a group of local citizen
seeing the need to protect the community in which they
lived, waiting on fire trucks from neighboring communities
was not acceptable to them. In 1961 the department was
formed and a charter was recognized. These same members
started the company using their own money and started to
purchase firefighting equipment. These few members had the
foresight and dedication to do whatever was needed to make
the company successful. The first fire house was located
on New Franklin Road in the old New Franklin Band Hall
Building, that building remained our home until 1976 when
we moved into our current facility. In 1986 we celebrated
our 25th Anniversary our first milestone. Even though we
are still only young in years we have already created a
tradition of providing excellent fire and rescue services,
a trade mark of hard work and dedication, the same
qualities our founding members had. |
An early
photo of some of the local citizens that saw the need to
establish a volunteer fire company. This photo shows the first
engine at the original fire station located on New Franklin Road
at the former band hall.
Another picture of our early years showing our Hahn tanker and
1958 Ford pumper that was
purchased from Forrestville Fire Department in P.G. County
Maryland
Ground Breaking for our current station, Shown left to right is
Winnie Bowen ladies aux president, Jim Strite Company
President and Ron Stambaugh Fire Chief
Chief Stambaugh accepts
the
The first winning team of
the
Our first mascot "RAIDER" was
James Cutchall Trophy for
the
Cutchall trophy, Co.17
won
purchased by Bobby Glass and
pumping
contest.
all four years the event was
held
Jeff Baker funded by the sales
of wood pallets.
PAST
PRESIDENTS
PAST FIRE CHIEFS
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1961-1964
JOHN HEPFER |
1961-1968
JAYE POE |
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1965
THOMAS DAVIS |
1969-1973
RALPH HEPFER |
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1966
RALPH HEPFER |
1974-1985
RONALD STAMBAUGH |
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1967
LESTER SMITH |
1986-2006
COLIN SNYDER |
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1968-1969
LAMAR HOLLAR
2006-2007 CLYDE THOMAS III |
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1970
JAMES HEPFER
2007- SCOTT BRADNICK |
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1971 DAVID MARTIN |
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1972 JAY
POE |
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1973-1974
GEORGE SHETTER |
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1975
JAMES STRITE |
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1976
GEORGE SHETTER |
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1977
DAVID MARTIN |
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1978
MIKE WAUGH 1978 JOHN DUKE |
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1979-1990
JOHN DUKE |
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1990-PRESENT
ROBERT GLASS |
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