1944   Department created by special Town Meeting vote

1944   Ward Wright 1st Fire Chief

1945   First Fire Station built; First fire truck hand built

1946   Red network established

1947   Clarence Kinney 2nd Fire Chief

1948   Wilbur Moody 3rd Fire Chief

1953   First new Fire Truck purchased

1955   1st of 5 additions built onto the Fire Station

1958   Kenneth Hurteau 4th Fire Chief

1959   2nd addition built onto Fire Station for toilets

1964   Meredith Reynolds 5th Fire Chief

1965   3rd addition built onto Fire Station

1966   Daniel Stewart 6th Fire Chief

1969   Roland Weeman 7th Fire Chief

1970   Donald Murphy 8th Fire Chief

1972   1st radio paging for calls after "Red Network"

1973   Training tower built by members

1974   4th addition built onto Fire Station

1977   1st four EMT's are trained for medical response

1977   5th addition built onto Fire Station

1979   First local Volunteer Dept. to obtain Jaws of Life

1981   John Rockwell 9th Fire Chief

1981   Marsha Holloway 1st woman Firefighter/EMT

1982   Pocket pagers fully implemented

1983   David Weymouth 10th Fire Chief

1983   We stopped riding the tailboards of fire trucks

1990   Michael Murphy 11th Fire Chief

1991   1st EMT-Intermediate training implemented

1992   Charter member of district Hazmat Response Team

1994   Last "converted" fire truck removed from service

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