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January 3, 2014
Letitia M. Flagge (1913 - 2014)
HFRA Winter Meeting
"Hands on" Chief Tramontano Trained His Troops
1956 Dawns With a Nasty Cold Weather Fire
Photo: Cmdr. Jack Laffin and Ff. Gary Couture
Photo: Ff. John Corbett
January 10, 2014
Many Hands Make Light Work
January HFRA Meeting Photos
1988 - Ffs. Ray Ramelli and Mike Murray
New "We Remember" Video Now on YouTube
January 17, 2014
Gary Merwede Named Deputy Fire Chief
40 Years Ago HFD Goes Diesel
Firefighters Saved a Classic Hamden Eatery
January 1965 - Another Hamden Restaurant Bites the Dust
70 Years Ago - Purce Named Fire Marshal
Dedication Plaque - 1939 Diamond-T
January 24, 2014
Deputy Chief Gary Merwede Sworn In
Another Mystery Photo
IMPROMPTU REUNION - CLASS OF '78
January 31, 2014
Honorary Member Nancy Saccani Hurlburt
Ralph & Ralph
100 Years Ago! - Coutts Brothers
Coutts' Bros. Whitneyville Co. 3 Badges Donated
1850s Fire Tower
"History" is today, too
Changing Hose on Engine 9
1/31/59 - No. Haven Brick Co. Fire
Photo No Longer a Mystery
February 7, 2014
California Firefighter Meets Barney Fife
July 1973 - Station 5
Mt. Carmel School
1974 - Sick Benefit Assn. Elects New Officers
1982 - Laying Supply Lines Before LDH
February 9, 1944 - Belle's Blessed Event at Station 3
50 Years Ago - Home Inspections During Ed Sullivan(?)
Barletta Honors Presidents Day With Historic U.S. Flag
February 14, 2014
Firefighter Hugh McLean, Jr. (1924 - 2014)
July 31, 1987 - Superior Printing Ink Co.
60 Years Ago!
Retirement Dinner Announcement
Patches to Trade?
February 21, 2014
70 Years Ago - Church Street School Fire
Firefighter's Wife Saves Children (Newscast)
Laying Supply Lines Before LDH - Pt. 2
Memorial Plaque to Commissioner William D. Daymon
1954 - Firemen Present Sterilizers to VNA
February 28, 2014
1962 - Firefighters Gathered at Hull's Rathskellar
1888 Fire at the Brewery
Hull's Breweriana
Box 22's
New Haven Firefighters
Fire Districts Proposed 50 Years Ago
Bowling at Whitneyville 60 Years Ago
Meanwhile, Upstairs at Station 3
March 7, 2014
"It's Bo-Bo Time!"
New Haven's Hull's Brewery - Two Fires, 90 Years Apart
Fishing for a squirrel?
April 1988 - Repair Shop Crew
March 14, 2014
Old Third Platoon Demonstrates "The Net"
Leddy Stressed Inadequacies, Urged Improvements
1957 Corey's Wayside Market Fire - Before & After
December 1, 1983 Roster - 118 Line Personnel
March 21, 2014
132 Santa Fe Avenue,Thursday, March 25, 1971
New Haven Parks Dept., Park Road, March 14, 1977
Happy Birthday, Rev. Sanderson
March 25, 1957 - Co. 9 Gets Old Schoolhouse
CERT - The New & Improved EM44
March 28, 2014
1949 - The Carwin Chemical Co.
1962 - Fuel Oil Leaks into Lake Whitney
1941 - Hamden's 1926 H&L vs. Trolley
1963 - Diamond-T Ladder Truck Sold!
1966 - "There, but for that telephone pole, go I"
April 4, 2014
The HFRA Started With an Invitation
HFRA Spring Quarterly Meeting
'73 Maxim at Station 9 sometime in the late 1980s
50 Years Ago - "Search and Communications Drill"
Stan Brown photo of Station 2 c. 1964
Mark Pratt driving Engine 2 to the Shop
Roster - January 1, 1999
April 11, 2014
HFRA Spring Meeting
Whistles Replaced Sirens During WWII
2014 Local 2687 Annual Dinner
Newest Firefighter Sworn In
BMW + Fire Hydrant = PRICELESS!
April 18, 2014
30 Years Ago - "Hamden at Work"
1979 - Altieri and Mulcahy at Station 2
1969 Mill River Water Rescue at Ives Street
Seasonal Delivery for the Kids
April 25, 2014
30 Years Ago - An end to one era; start of another
HFD's Mountain Rescue Team 30 Years Ago
Fire Commissioners Name V. Paul Leddy Chief
Reynolds Jaycees "Outstanding Fireman of 1974"
1979 - Lt. John Tramontano at Station 2
May 2-9, 2014
Lt. Bill Fitzmaurice / Prescher Photo Bombs Chase
100 Years Ago -The Humphrey Drum Corps
ROBBIE'S JAM
May 2, 1964 - West Todd near Hillfield
40 Years Ago - Driverless NoHFD Engine Takes Off
May 16, 2014
The Center of Hamden 65 Years Ago
Fireworks Fundraiser
May 1967 - Lt. Joe McDermott at old Station 3
The Hamden Chronicle
May 21, 1977 at Station 3
May 23, 2014
Whitneyville Badge Donated by Member's Daughter
PARADE READY ON MERRITT STREET - c. 1930
MAY 1964 - This Week's Special a 1961 Caddy (Slightly Used)
May 30, 2014
Firefighter Joseph Yoga (1942 - 2014)
Fire School Sixty Years Ago
Memorial Day 2014
Hamden's WWI and WWII Rolls of Honor
Memorial Day, Saturday, May 30, 1970
War Vet & Hamden Vol. Alumnus a Lt. in SC Fire Dept.
June 6, 2014
June 6, 1944 - 70 Years - Remembering the Fallen
Film of Hamden's 1969 "Firemen's Field Day"
Haz-Mat Highway to Hell Video
O'Connell's Lawn Mower Shop
June 13, 2014
Website 5th Anniversary
1943 - First Color Apparatus Photo
June 14th is FLAG DAY
Wallace-Davis Company - Friday, August 29, 1958
1898 Photo of Whitney and Dixwell Avenues
June 20, 2014
Hamden's Forgotten Fire Company
Grave Markers - Once a Tradition
68 years ago - Firemen Want Shorter Week
Fireworks Next Week
1930 Maxim on State Street - 1954
June 27, 2014
Hamden's Forgotten Fire Company - Pt. 2
The North Hamden Fire Company
40 Years Ago - Change of Radio Designations
Ffs. Carmen Amarante and Jim Moore assist student CPR training
1973 Maxim Telesqurt
1924 Apparatus Inventory
July 11, 2014
2014 Summer Meeting
25th Anniversary - Monday, July 10, 1989 - TORNADO!
Various TV News Accounts, Past & Present
Souvenir for Service
Commemorative T-Shirt
Day After the Hamden Tornado
Sears Building Proved a Safe Haven in '89
Fire - 11 Notkins Street
Remember this guy?
2014 FIREWORKS!
July 25, 2014
Two New Hamden Firefighters
Nasty Apartment Fire at Dogwood Hills
Fundraiser for Pregnant Firefighter/EMT with ALS
1938 Diamond-T "Emergency Squad"
Birthday at Station 3
1976 - Supt. of Alarms & Apparatus Richie Lostritto
c. 1962 - Ffs. Paul Reutenauer and Milner Benham
1984 Pierce at Station 3
Hamden Civil Defense in 1960
Fire Department Softball - 1963
August 8, 2014
A Visit From An Old Friend
Another Jack?
August 8, 1962 - Spectacular Blaze
Station 3 in 1947
Apparatus 1961-1965
August 22, 2014
November 4, 1987 - Platoon 4, Station 3
1949 - Humphrey Station Turned Over to Town
May 1991 - Lt. Howie Hurlburt, Jr.
Substitute Firefighters
1932 Dextone Fire - Worst Hamden Financial Fire Loss
September 5, 2014
Hamden's New 1990 Ladder Truck
1966 Field Day Photo
1963 Winchester Powder Farm Fire Training
1966 Fatal Corvair Crash at Carmel & Whitney
1980 Engine 260 - Christie Tractor Steamer Pumping
September 12, 2014
2014 Engine 260 Muster Photos
1941 Diamond-T Ladder at New Milford & Elsewhere
1984 - Saxony Coat Company Fire
1960s - Apparatus on Kaye Vue Drive
September 19, 2014
Calling All Maxims! - Maxim Centennial
Hamden's 15 Maxims
Other Connecticut Maxims (Branford)
Local 2687 Annual Golf Tournament
35 Years Ago Hamden FFs Picket Town Hall
Old Station 3 Days Remembered - BOWLING!
50 Years Ago - Station 6 Register Article & Photo
September 26, 2014
October Quarterly Meeting to Honor Deceased Members
September 1970 - New Officers
1982 - D/C Tramontano in Central Communications
Pump Acceptance Test for 1926 Pumper
Anoher Connecticut Maxim: Branford
Honorary Member Geraldine Bourneuf Tobin
October 3, 2014
Hamden's First Retirement Plan 65 Years Ago
Brainard at HQ: 1954 - 2014
Station 9 Today
New Rescue 1 at Station 4
Cheshire's 1913 Ford
October 10, 2014
Hartford Firefighter Dies in the Line of Duty
HFRA Honors Memories of Ten of Their Own
2015 HFRA Officers Elected
By-law Change Proposed to Lengthen Terms
64 Years Ago - First HFD Chaplains Appointed
Darien's 1949 Ward-LaFrance Quad
October 17, 2014
Sixties Station Scenes Served as Student's Snapshot Subjects
House of Heroes - Connecticut
HFD Conducts a Fire Extinguisher "In Service"
Trench collapses on 4 SCSU workers; all rescued
Nice looking Mack pumper
Links to media coverage of the plaque presentations
October 24, 2014
The Gov Visits 3s!
IAFF General Prez Addresses Local 2687 Members at 3s
The "Repair Shop"
October 24, 1951 - Mysterious Fire
1990s Photos of Station 2 Apparatus
1974 New Haven Columbus Day Parade
October 31, 2014
Update Dedicated to Ff. Sidney Trower (1915 - 2011)
Aerial View of Hamden Plains
BOO!
Alarm Room c. 1960
1958 Photo of Pl. 1 Aerial Ladder Crew
Seymour's Seagrave Quint
November 7, 2014
30 Years Ago - 7 New Officers Promoted
Two late 1984 Rosters
November 1999 Tower One Training Photos
1973 Aerial Ladder Practice
Southington's 1959 Open Cab Cab-Forward Maxim
Mystery Dispatcher: Bantz or Benham?
November 14, 2014
Two Veterans Retiring
November 11, 1957 Lumber Yard Fire
A Tale of Two Hats
Fooling Around at the Firehouse? Never!
Photo of Mount Carmel in the 1910s
"America's Best" by James Foley (HPD Ret.)
November 21, 2014
Ff. Dennis Baker
Trash Truck Catches Fire
1964 - Lieut. Luke Tobin
1961 HFD Ball Program
1968 Firemen's Ball
West Haven's Maxim Open Cab Aerial Ladder Truck
November 28, 2014
Saying "Goodbye" to Buechele and Harrison
1967 - Fireside Restaurant
1967 Department Inventory
1973 - Leonard Pipe Fire
West Haven Maxim Aerial Ladder - Year Clarified
December 5, 2014
50 Years - Weather Vane Restaurant
30 Years - Fire Training at Wallingford
Ff. Jim Dunlop Gives Youngster Tour of Truck
December 12, 2014
Marshal and Lieutenant Promotions
Dramatic Below Grade Rescue 50 Years Ago
Firefighters Honored for Below Grade Rescue
Ball Program Advertisers Share Dubious Distinction
Studebakers!
December 19, 2014
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Platoon 2, Station 4 - 1968
Platoon 2, Station 4 - 46 Years Later
Chief Tramontano Visits 4s
Classic 1935 Ford Chief's Car
Chief Leddy Inspects His Final Order
HFD Featured in IAFF Magazine
Website photo rekindles fond memory of old pick-up truck
Cargan, McDermott, Dinneen & Petrillo at WFD
1983 Christmas Party Pix
December 26, 2014
Hamden Elks' Firefighter of the Year Dave Beaton
50 Years Ago - Reilly's Restaurant Fire
30 Years Ago - Westervelt First Asst. Marshal Sworn In
Ffs. John O'Hare and Charlie Esposito in '65
O'Hare's Classic Chrysler
"Batman's" Batty Christmas Ornament
Jeanne McLean Obituary (and Link)
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