Friday, July 01, 2011

Coaldale Fire and EMS













I'm gonna end ThemeWeek: PA Coal County with the Fire and EMS stations in Coaldale.. The first is their current station in the 100 block of West High Street. Coaldale Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 was formed in 1906 and moved into the Borough Hall building when it was built just a year later. I found it interesting on their website's history page that they purchased a Howe motor driven pumper in 1908 but in 1916 they replaced it with a horse drawn Hahn. And then they returned to modern apparatus in 1923 with a REO chemical engine. Anyway, they built their new station in 1977 and did most of the inside work by themselves. The ladder truck on the left is retired FDNY Ladder 84. L84 runs out of OZ on Staten Island along with Engine 164. The middle building is the old firehouse located in the Borough Hall. Note that those aren't real doors, they are some sort of stucco made to look like doors. I think they also ran some units out of the side rear of the building. I can remember as a kid they would block off this section of Third Street for block parties. Last building is EMS, of course. Sorry I couldn't find any information about the Coaldale EMS. Mom and my uncle remember them running with the fire department out of Borough Hall but don't remember when they built this building down on Water Street. They have a myFace page but it doesn't give any information.

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