UPCOMING --
JUNE 2007
Lowell MA -- Please notify your respective Depts. if interested ( and applicable ), please mark your calendars!
Firefighter Combat Challenge weekend and fire truck parade in Lowell, Ma. June 23-24th.
Questions please contact Jason Strunk at:
[email protected]
Nashua (Iowa) Volunteer Fire Department 100th Anniversary
The Nashua Volunteer Fire Department is celebrating 100 years of dedicated service to the community and area this year. In commemoration of this event, we will be hosting an antique fire engine parade during the Water Over the Dam Days parade on Saturday, June 23rd. Line up is at 9:30 near the football field and parade time is 10:30.
After the parade all pre-1950 antique entries are invited to Cedar View Park for showing and judging. Trophies will be awarded for the following categories: OLDEST, FURTHEST TRAVELED, BEST OF SHOW.
All participants in the parade and other activities are then invited for food and refreshments at the Nashua Fire Station. NO NEED TO SIGN UP - JUST SHOW UP.
Sincerely,
Tom Johnson, Chief
MAY 2007
Antrim Fire and Ambulance
will be having an Open House on Saturday May 19th from 1000 to 1500 at Station #1 on Clinton Road.
Smokey Bear, auto extrication demo, fire extinguisher demos and the Fire Safety Trailer from SWNHFMA. Raffles and free stuff throughout the day
APRIL 2007
Plans progress for new Stratham fire station -
Firefighters thank community for new station funding
The Stratham Fire Department had its first meeting in the highway shed this past Wednesday as part of the department's temporary move to the Department of Public Works building on Bunker Hill Avenue. The move will be completed this weekend.
Most of the meeting was spent discussing the logistics of completing the move.
The transfer of equipment began April 3 and involved the volunteer firefighters working every night for the past two weeks.
Complete Seacoast Online Article at
Seacoast Online
E. Kingston residents meet over fire chief -
Selectmen eye reducing post to part-time
Residents packed another selectmen's meeting about the fire chief Monday April 16.
Chief Alan Muzar first met in a closed session with his attorney and selectmen to discuss his full-time job status, which selectmen said they intend to revoke in May, making the position part-time. After the closed session, members of the fire department, fire association and residents issued passionate appeals in support of Muzar, punctuated by resounding applause
Complete Seacoast Online Article at
Seacoast Online
MARCH 2007
TOWN MEETING RESULTS
ALLENSTOWN - Article 11: $275,000 lease of a mini-pumper truck Yes 102 No 419
ALLENSTOWN - Article 11: To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to enter into a five (5) year lease purchase agreement for Two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($275,000) for the purpose of leasing a mini-pumper to replace the Allenstown Fire Department's 1976 American LaFrance (Engine 2) and to raise and appropriate Sixty-fourthousand two hundred fifty dollars ($64,250) for the first year's payment for that purpose. This lease agreement contains an escape clause. Yes 102 No 419
ALLENSTOWN - Article 12: To see if the Town will vote to raise and
appropriate Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to be placed into the existing
Public Safety Facilities Capital Reserve Fund. Yes 247 No 266
ALLENSTOWN - Article 13: $34,482 for 2 full-time firefighters Yes 107
No 413
ALLENSTOWN - Article 13: To see if the Town will vote to raise and
appropriate the sum of Thirty-four thousand four hundred eighty-two
dollars ($34,482 ) to hire two (2) additional full-time firefighters for
the Allenstown Fire Department. This represents 1/2 year's salary for two
firefighters including the cost of gear, uniforms and physicals. Yes 107
No 413
ALLENSTOWN - Article 14: $28,394 lease-purchase agreement for a 2007
SUV Yes 195 No 321
ALLENSTOWN - Article 14: To see if the Town will vote to authorize the
Board of Selectmen to enter into a three (3) year lease purchase agreement
of Twenty-eight thousand three hundred ninety-four dollars ($28,394) for
the purpose of leasing a 2007 SUV for use by the Fire and Police
Departments as a Command Vehicle, and to raise and appropriate the sum of
Ten thousand two hundred twentytwo dollars ($10,222) for the first year's
payment for that purpose. This will replace the current Car 1 a 1999 Ford
Crown Victoria, which will be transferred to the Highway Department. This
lease agreement contains an escape clause. Yes 195 No 321
ALLENSTOWN - Article 15: To see if the Town will vote to raise and
appropriate the sum of One thousand dollars ($1,000) to be placed in the
Police Cruiser Capital Reserve Fund. Yes 292 No 225
ALLENSTOWN - Article 16: To see if the Town will vote to change the
purpose of the existing Police Computer Equipment Capital Reserve Fund to
the Town Computer Equipment Capital Reserve Fund. The current balance is
$4,825.49. (2/3 vote required) Yes 314 No 203
ALLENSTOWN - Article 17: To see if the Town will vote to raise and
appropriate the sum of Six thousand dollars ($6,000) to be placed in the
Police Safety Equipment Capital Reserve Fund. Yes 274 No 244
ALLENSTOWN - Article 9: To see if the Town will vote to raise and
appropriate the sum of Ten-thousand dollars ($10,000) to be placed in the
Fire Department Safety Equipment Capital Reserve Fund. Yes 279 No 265
ALTON - Article 20: $139,000 from ambulance fund for ambulance lease
payment Yes 1,063 No 296
ALTON - Article 21: $30,000 for fire station reserve fund Yes 864 No
503
ALTON - Article 22: $50,421 for lease payment for fire rescue vehicle
Yes 997 No 361
ALTON - Article 23: $390,000 for new fire pump truck Yes 765 No 599
ALTON - Article 24: $30,100 for fire SUV command vehicle Yes 630 No
735
CANDIA - Article 23: To see if the town will raise $50,000 to be
deposited in the capital reserve fund for the future purchase of fire
apparatus and equipment. Yes 499 No 212
CANDIA - Article 27: To see if the town will raise $15,000 to be
deposited into the capital reserve fund for the future purchase of fire
apparatus and equipment. Yes 512 No 198
CORNISH - Appropriation of $22,000 for the fire department capital
reserve fund passed.
CORNISH - Demolition of the current fire station and highway garage in
preparation for a new fire station passed.
DEERFIELD - Article 2: $200,000 for fire suppression system Yes 622 No
383
DUNBARTON - Approved: $32,000 for the fire department, of which 95
percent will be paid for by a federal grant, to buy new protective
equipment and a washer to clean the gear.
EPSOM - Article 11: $171,734 for an ambulance Yes 609 No 496
EPSOM - Article 12: Shall the Town raise and appropriate the sum of
twentysix thousand seven hundred seventyfive dollars ($26,775.00) to
refurbish the body of the 1993 Pierce Rescue Pumper? Majority vote
required; this appropriation is in addition to the operating budget. Yes
654 No 450
EPSOM - Article 13: There presently exists a Special Revenue Fund
established under RSA 31:95c which provides that up to $15,000.00 per year
and no more than $150,000.00 in aggregate earned from providing ambulance
services be reserved and spent on replacing or maintaining the ambulance
equipment of the Epsom Fire and Rescue. Are you in favor of removing the
per year and aggregate ceilings, and allowing the fund to be expended on
any fire and ambulance apparatus? Any expenditure from this fund will only
be made after a vote by the legislative body to appropriate a specific
amount from said fund for a specific purpose related to the purpose of the
fund or the source of revenue. This fund shall be hereafter known as the
Fire and Rescue Apparatus Fund, separate from the General Fund. Any
surplus in the said fund shall not be deemed part of the General Fund
accumulated surplus. Majority vote required. Yes 718 No 362
FARMINGTON - Article 10 placing $50,000 in capital reserve for fire
equipment
FARMINGTON - Article 15, seeking $43,750 to be added to a Public
Safety Building Capital Reserve Fund was approved.
FARMINGTON - Article 18, seeking $27,000 for a new police Ford
Explorer, to replace a 7-year old Ford Expedition, was approved.
HILLSBOROUGH - Voters agreed to spend $30,000 toward the
lease-purchase of a $212,000 tanker for the fire department.
LEE - Article 10, which would have given selectmen the authority to
appoint the fire chief and fire engineers, was withdrawn
LEE - Article 11, $10,000 for the Solid Waste Capital Reserve Fund,
approved.
LEE - Article 15, $24,780 for a new police cruiser, approved.
LEE - Article 8, $10,000 for repair and replacement of fire ponds and
cisterns, approved.
LEE - Article 9, $50,000 for the Fire Equipment Trust Fund, approved.
LITCHFIELD - Voters chose to stay with Fire Chief Tom Schofield.
Schofield topped Tim Hebert, a former Litchfield firefighter who now works
for the Derry Fire Department, by a vote of 943-385.
MILAN - Town Meeting approved $44,625 to survey and purchase land next
to the West Milan fire truck garage.
MILTON -- New fire station, residents voted against the $950,000 bond to replace the existing building, which firefighters will soon have to vacate per order of the state Fire Marshal.
Article 4 required a three-fifths majority to pass, but it failed to even make a simple majority -- 451 yes 27, no 350, blank.
NEW DURHAM - Approved was Article 17, sending $50,000 to the "new fire
station" fund, which was established at last year's meeting and filled
with a separate $50,000.
NEW DURHAM -- Article 10 -- To establish a capital reserve fund with
$50,000 for purchasing land for a new fire station failed in a 94-92
secret ballot vote.
NEW DURHAM - Article 11 - To appropriate $165,000 to purchase a four-acre
site of mostly high ground uplands with access off Route 11 for a new fire
station failed 114-79
NEW DURHAM - Article 16 was approved, establishing a capital reserve fund,
with an initial allotment of $25,000, to prepare for a satellite fire
station on Kings Highway to serve the town's Second Division.
PITTSBURG - Results pending
SALISBURY - Voters approved a $280,000 plan to expand the library.
Only $25,000 will be raised through taxes. Part of the remainder will come
from the the sale of the town's old fire station.
STRATHAM NH - PENDING -- Stratham firefighters and the building committee
hope voters at Town Meeting on Friday night will remedy the situation by
approving $2.25 million more to build a new station.
SUNAPEE - Approved $60,000 for the fire apparatus capital reserve
fund, 662-293
FEBRUARY 20007
The bi-annual Ham Operators Swap Show, the "HOSS Traders" will no longer be held after about 30 years. Best known during its hayday in Deerfield, the event has been held more recently in Hopkinton and Rochester. A victim of E-bay and a couple of idiots almost burning down a building at the Deerfield Fairgrounds.
JANUARY 2007
DECEMBER 2006
Lebanon NH Fire Chief: Staff Is Overworked
Budget Asks $60,000 More for Overtime By David Corriveau Valley
News Staff Writer Lebanon -- The Lebanon Fire Department last night
presented the City Council with a proposed budget of $2.9 million,
a 12.5 percent increase that includes $60,000 more in overtime pay.
Fire officials described the staff as overworked and in some cases
under trained.
Complete Valley New
Story
NOVEMBER 2006
Sullivan NH The Sullivan Fire Department regrets
to announce the passing of founding member Ted Parker, who had
sixty years of service with the department.
There are no calling hours.
A memorial service will be held Saturday November 25 at 2:00pm.
Attendees are requested to meet at the Sullivan Fire Station at
1:30pm.
Links to video clips of Funeral for Fallen Manchester Police
Officer Michael Briggs.
Channel 9 Manchester
WMUR TV
Channel 7 Boston
WHDH TV
Channel 4 Boston
WBZ-TV
