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Our department has approximately 80 members responding from 3 fire stations. Our Chief is Michael Garrahy. He is supported by his staff officers that include Assistant Chief Kevin Morton and 2 Deputy Chiefs; Larry Lindenberger and David Kromas. Our Fire Marshal is Richard Renstrom.
Each station house is equiped with Class A pumpers and an aerial ladder. We have a heavy resuce unit that is part of Station 3 operations.
Station 1 is located on Old Main Street in the center of town. Here we have Engine 2, Engine 4, Truck 1, Rescue 1 and our Marine Unit. Station1 officers are Capt. Fred Weber, 1st LT William Conlan and 2nd. LT and Henry Vasel.
Station 2 is located in the west end of town on New Britain Avenue. Engine 3 and Engine 6 are located here along with Truck 2 and Attack 1. The officers here are Capt. Mark Kershaw, 1st LT Chris Brainard and 2nd LT Yves Poulin,
Station 3 is located in the Southeast corner of town on Main Street. Engine 1, Truck 3, Rescue 2 and Tac 2 are assigned to this station. Capt. Jason Kelly along with 1st LT Tom McNamara and 2nd LT Mark Gentile lead the members assigned to this station. This is also the location of Fire Headquarters.
Fire Police operations are conducted out of our original fire station on Church Street by Capt James Beeler. We have 3 fire police units that are assigned to our stations. Fire Police personnel respond to their assigned station when a call is dispatched. They provide traffic control on our highways, crowd control at fire emergencies and provide firefighting support activities when working at any emergency. Each unit is equipped with similar apparatus so that each unit can function independently at an emergency. Unit 24 is the largest fire police response vehicle and carries several special items such as remote thernal imaging camera video receivers and monitors and a rehab operations center.
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