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New Boston Fire Association The New Boston Fire Department is an emergency response center. It contains 3 services, fire, rescue, and ambulance, for the town of New Boston, New Hampshire USA. All Services provided by the fire department are funded by town taxes. The service is free for all in town. Mutual aid to surrounding towns is also provided. The department is staffed by members of the New Boston Fire Association. This association is a non-profit organization whose sole purpose has been to provide fire, rescue and ambulance services to New Boston. The association consists of a fire chief, assistant chief, treasurer, clerk, training officers, committee members, rescue and fire company officers and personnel; all of whom are volunteers. We have enjoyed many years here in New Boston; with the support, respect and appreciation of the people of the town. NBFD has always been volunteer. The association started as a fire service. Over the years, rescue and the ambulance were added. Rescue became part of the association in 1938, and the ambulance was added in 1978. Women were allowed to join the association, with Cora "Corky" Trimbur becoming the first on July 6, 1977. At that time, members were required to be both fire fighters and rescue squad. Now, members can choose either or both. While we look forward to the future, improving our skills and equipment, we also are proud of our past. One of our treasures is a horse-drawn fire pump. It was purchased in May 1872 and named "Constitution #2". It still resides at the fire station, and attends parades. We have list of equipment. We are also fortunate to have a second station available to us. The Air Force Tracking Station in New Boston is complete with it's own fire station. When a section of the Air Force Tracking Station was demilitarized, the fire station was made available to the towns of Amherst, Bedford and New Boston, and it was named Hilltop. Bedford provided coverage during weekdays, New Boston and Amherst provided coverage on-call nights and weekends. To assist in ambulance response time, our ambulance 76-Ambulance 2, was placed there when the new ambulance, 76-Ambulance 1, arrived. Amherst withdrew from the station shortly after joining. At the close of 2002, Bedford ended its relationship at Hilltop, and the station is now manned on-call by New Boston. The Air Force has requested that we continue to service their base. In return the Air Force maintains the engine, named 76-Emgine 6 and the yellow mini pumper, named 76-Engine 5 that remain on the property. In addition they purchase equipment, such as a set of Hurst tools for extrication and a thermal imaging camera, to be stored on those trucks. As a courtesy to the town for the fire and ambulance service, they allow our department to use the equipment for town emergencies. These pages are meant to introduce us to you, and to help provide a source of information to our community on health and safety issues. Please feel free to suggest topics. |