How It Started

IT ALL STARTED WHEN…

a Malta town meeting in 1948 exposed the inadequacies of the existing fire protection plan. A charter for the Malta Ridge Volunteer Fire Company was applied for and approved; the original charter totaled 68 members. Those original members purchased a 1928 American LaFrance pumper(see above photo). A small utility truck was also donated to the company. In 1949, a Quonset Hut was purchase to house the engine and tanker trucks.

Charter Members

May 1, 1948 to March 31, 1949

73 citizens signed up to be members before organizing.

Active members (47)

Arthur Adamson

Ernest Arnold Sr.

William Atkins

William Bortell

J. Bulfort

J. Commer

Gilbert Delucia

Franklin Flinton Jr.

Ed Graves

Ernest Kunz

Irving Levine

Clarence Melander

E. Morrision

Malcolm Ramsdill

Paul Vennefron

Chas Wilber

William Arndt

Ralph Arnold

Andrew Banias

John (Jonathan) Brown

Herbert Burnmaster

Michael Czupil

Cecil DeVore

Earl Gates

Ed Jackman

Ernest Lewis

Adolphous Lowell

Eli Mosher

James Morris

Fred Uline

Merrit Vincent

Harold Wood

Part Time Members (17)

Harold Arnold

William Brown

Bart Francis

Jack Levine

Frank Reno

A. Barnes

Claude Burger

John Furman

Mitchell Kratch

Dr. Irving Russell

Walter Uline

Honorary Members (6)

Harry Barber

Clarence Jones

George Corp

Chas. Relyea

Ernest Arnold Jr.

Bruce Atkins

Clarence Bassett

William Bruce

David Carr

Jack Davis

John Ferris

Frank Gates

Harold Knapp

Edward Levine

Ernest Melander

Fred Myers

Raymond Nutting

Robert VanAernum

Roy Vincent

Robert Beach

Lester David

Jos Hammer

Thos. Montgomery

Ed Uline

Dr. M.J. Cornthwaite

Fred Selch

No show (3)

Not listed are the three who did not show up or pay their dues.