10/03/2026
A different type of Naugatuck FD history post this week. Photo is from the Naugatuck Daily News dated July 8, 1914. I have transcribed actions from an article covering the Borough Board meeting relating to the fire department.
The board voted to approve of the action of the Fire Committee and Fire Chief in purchasing a pair of horses for the Maple Street hose house.
A communication was received from Fire Chief Hoadley recommending that a double hydrant be installed on the east side of Spring Street near the Noyes Wilmont property and also that a single hydrant be changed to a double hydrant no action taken.
A communication was received from Charles E. Pearson of the fire company stating that the Fire Police have never been sworn in Burgess Fitzgerald stated that the Fire Police have been approved by a previous board but clerk Sears said he understood that they had not been notified of their appointment. A vote was passed to approving the appointments. The fire police are M. R. Hardt, William R. Kerr, August Horn, Peter J. Ford, Joseph Roberts and M. Stanley Webster.
In communication to the board secretary Charles E. Pearson of the fire company stated that the company had accepted the changes in the companies bylaws as written in a stipulation, a care upon by the attorney for the late Borough Board and the company‘s attorney in the adjustment of the injunction brought by the company against the late Bureau board and that their acceptance leaves the Incorporated without a place to meet and transacted business.
The writer has been requested to ask the board to grant the incorporated company permission to hold meetings at the Maple Street hose house four times a year to transact it’s necessary business. The board voted to grant the request, but warden remarked that it should be understood that these meetings would not conflict with any meetings of the fire company as a borough organization.
A communication was received from the fire company asking that the tax of $49.50 be elevated the warden was instructed to appoint a tax abatement committee, and it was voted that the matter of the proposed abatement be referred to that committee. The warden stated he would name the committee later.
Burgess Fitzgerald on the fire committee called attention to the need of fire horses to take out apparatus in case of a second alarm, he said Mr. O’Brien had agreed to send a pair of horses to the hose house after every alarm the clerk was instructed to prepare a form of agreement between the borough and Mr. Obrien when the alarm now rings, the horses respond with a hook and ladder truck and the auto chemical also response, leaving no horses for the chemical engine in case of a second alarm.
A vote was passed, giving the two drivers of the fire apparatus a week vacation with pay
A motion of Burgess Fitzgerald the vote passed some months ago giving drivers of the Fire Chief's car $.50 per hour was rescinded. It is said that the plan to compensate drivers of the Chief car did not work out satisfactory.
