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1 Originally organized as "Volunteer Fire Company" on March 17, 1887 and later underwent a name change to "Delaware City Hose Company" on January 23, 1889. There was a disrupted period of inactivity where there was no organized fire company and the Delaware City Fire Company was reorganized on July 9, 1924, however, the company uses the initial date of organization for the previous company in ...
On January 20, 2009, the Delaware Volunteer Firemen's Association marched in the inauguration parade for President Barack Obama as a guest of Vice-President Joseph Biden of Delaware who is an honorary member and President Emeritus of the D.V.F.A. Five members from all 60 departments were invited to march in the parade, led by the marching band ...
Frederica is a town in Kent County, Delaware, United States.It is part of the Dover metropolitan area.The population was 1,073 in 2020. [3] ILC Dover, the company which manufactured the spacesuits for the Apollo and Skylab astronauts of the 1960s and 1970s, along with fabricating the suit component of the Space Shuttle's Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), is located nearby.
Fort Johnson Volunteer Fire Company; Gordon Heights Fire Department; Great River Fire Department; Long Beach Fire Department (New York) Mount Sinai Fire Department; New York City Fire Department; Oceanic H&L Company No. 1; Plandome Fire Department; Rescue Hook and Ladder Co.1 Haverstraw NY; Richmond Engine Co. 1; Sayville Fire Department ...
A volunteer fire department (VFD) is a fire department of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction. Volunteer and retained (on-call) firefighters are expected to be on call to respond to emergency calls for long periods of time, and are summoned to the fire station when their services ...
Approximately 40 people gathered Monday evening at Western Enterprise Fire Co.'s banquet hall to recognize the volunteer fire company's more than 150 years of service to the Hagerstown-area community.
The first fire companies in Washington D.C. – the Union Fire Company, the Columbia Fire Company and the Anacostia Fire Company – were organized in 1804 to serve the White House, the Capitol and the neighborhood of Anacostia, respectively. By the 1840s and 1850s the differences between companies within the same city had become quite significant.
Aug. 10—Fort Frederica was built in 1736 by the British in what at the time was frontier territory also contested by the Spanish. A victory by the British in 1742 over Spanish forces invading ...