History posts regarding the Town of Vernon and Rockville fire departments.
Courtesy of the Chief Donald Maguda Collection, we find the Park Place Fire Station which was the former home to the Fitch Company which is the current day Engine 441. We see company members standing proudly in front of their quarters with their 1951 Maxim pumper. The Fitch Company, the third […]
The Town of Vernon Fire Department is featuring Talcottville Company #3’s former apparatus courtesy of the John W. Turner Collection. Company #3 operated this 1953 Ford / Maxim pumper out of their quarters until being replaced by a 1969 Mack CF-600 pumper built in Allentown Pennsylvania. The 1969 […]
Dobsonville Fire Protection – 2nd to None! In the series of articles inspired by The Chief Maguda Collection, this month we will be spotlighting The Dobsonville Company of the former Vernon Fire District. This is now home to ET-241 of the Town of Vernon Fire Department in its present location on […]
This steamer served The City of Rockville, from 1895 to 1923, when the department began using fully motorized apparatus. This Steamer, which served the Fitch and Fitton Hose Companies along with The Snipsic Hook & Ladder Company’s 1913 Horse Drawn City Service ladder, were the last two horse […]
The next installment of The Maguda collection will feature The Snipsic Hook & Ladder Company. This company was where Chief Donald Maguda started his career with the Rockville Fire Department in the year 1954. Chief Maguda’s son, Captain David Maguda ,who graciously donated this extensive […]
What is to be presented in the next coming weeks, months, and years, is that of a wonderful historical collection of the late Fire Chief Donald J. Maguda, (July 11, 1933 to December 9, 2023). Chief Maguda started with the Snipsic Hook and Ladder Company stationed out of 5 Prospect St., the Fitton […]