NORWALK FIREMEN.
OUTH Norwalk, Norwalk, and East Norwalk people are not worried over their fire protection, nor do they lie awake o’ nights wondering how they would fare if a sudden blaze broke out either in the residentiary or the business portions of the triplet cities. They know they have a volunteer fire department second to none in the country, most thoroughly organized, most completely equipped, and officered and manned to perfection.
Its organization is due to William H. .Tones, the father of the department, by whose endeavors in 1865 the old bucket and ladder brigade was transformed into the Old Well hook and ladder company of forty-five members, of which he was unanimously elected the first foreman. Its rooms then as now were on Haviland street, South Norwalk. A truck for the company arrived April 21. This “ baby carriage,” as it came to be known, was found to be too small after a few years and was sold to a southern city. Another and larger truck was purchased from the New Haven fire department, and this was only recently discarded for a modern apparatus.
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