Stations
The apparatus run out of the 4 main stations, 2 sub-stations and district headquarters. The ambulances rotate between the 4 main stations on a weekly basis and rotates EMTS every 6 hours.
Hopewell Hose, is the oldest fire company in the District and began in 1912. As the area grew, fire companies were added which were strategically located to better serve the community. The Stormville Fire Company was started in 1949; followed by The Hillside Lake Fire Company in 1952 and The Wiccopee Fire Company in 1954. In addition to the four main fire companies, The Stormville Fire Company and The Wiccopee Fire Company also have substations which were started in 1983 and 1984 respectively.
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Famous quotes containing the word stations:
“mourn
The majesty and burning of the child’s death.
I shall not murder
The mankind of her going with a grave truth
Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“After I was married a year I remembered things like radio stations and forgot my husband.”
—P. J. Wolfson, John L. Balderston (1899–1954)
“I can’t quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world’s problems.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)