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Title: Volume 014-1 - April 1960 Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Collection Name: Nevada County Historical Society Bulletins # of Pages: 4 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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RESCUE EFFORTS AND RESULTS Training—Monthly—3 hrs. under supervision of Captain—simulated actual rescues. Annually—15 hrs. under supervision of Bureau of Mines. Calls 1957—15—Instrumental in saving 10 lives—D. 0. A. 2—Request for P. A. Unit 3—Average man response 7!2—Total 111. Calls 1953 — 17— Instrumental in saving 9 lives —D.O. A. 5 in air crash—Request for P. A. Unit 2—Average man response 6 Total 102. Calls 1959—23—Instrumental in saving 12 lives—D. 0. A. S—Request for P. A. Unit 3—Average man response 8!2—Total 196. FIRE CALLS AND RESULTS Training—At the Call of the Chief. Fire Calls 1957—59—Mutual Aid—2—False Alarms—1 Loss $18,626.20—3 Fires accounted for $15,4C0.00 of this. 1958—75—Mutual Aid—5—False Alarms—2. Loss $12,124.00—2 Fires accounted for $11,580.C0 of this. "**-1959—87—Mutual Aid—i7—False Alarms—7 Loss $18,637.00—3 Fires accounted for $17,550.00 of this. Mutual Aid calls are net included in the above fire call figures. The above loss figures shew that no matter how hard we try we can not save them all but again it shows that we lost only one out of each 28 calls. Not a bad average. The advantage of having a paid driver is the time saved in first getting on a fire. The above figures prove this. The first one to five minutes is the critical period and over five minutes arrived lapsed time often means the difference between a very small damage and a total loss. As an example: Our neighbor — The party discovered a fire has tu phone a Fireman’s wife (one to two minutes, depending on telephone traffic); the Fireman's wife has to phone and locate a driver and some one to sound the audio alarm ‘time indefinite); driver has to cover distance from his location to fire house, select code number and sound alarm, start truck—pick up help—travel to scene of fire ‘time indefinite’. You tigure the difference between five minutes arrival time and the time lost when there is no one on duty to answer fire or any emergency call. We say a great asset. This Bulletin is but a small tribute to the VOLUNTEER FIREMEN to whom no sacrifice is too great in both time and risk of life to protect our citizens from the RED DEMON, FIRE, and other dangers. It is the custom of the Nevada County Historical Socicty each year to hcnor an outstanding citizen and acclaim him as ‘‘The Citizen of the Year.” Three such honorees have been Volunteer Firemen and Past Chiefs of the Nevada City Fire Department: George Calanan, Chief during 1908-09; Phil Scadden, (who will be 87 on his next birthday) chiet during 1899-1900; and Elza Kilroy, 1921-22. This year, besides the Dedication of this Bulletin, The Nevada City Volunteer Fire Department has been selected as **THE HONOREE OF THE YEAR, 1960". The official ceremony conferring this distinction, will take place at a dinner to Le given Ly The Nevada County Historical Society on: April 30, 1960, 6:30 P.M., in the Elks Hall, Nevada City. Public Invited. For those interested, members of the Suciety, non-members, end all other friends of the Fire Department who would like to attend this dinner and ceremony, reservations ‘and . tickets may now be secured from Mrs. Thelma Bond, Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce, phone: G.V. 71; and from Mrs. Gwen Anderson, Chamber of Commerce, Nevada City, phone, N.C. 575. Next Regular Monthly Meeting — Date: May 5, 1960 — 8:00 P. M. Place: Nevada City Elementary School. 1960 OFFICERS OF THE NEVADA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY President—Elza J. Kilroy, 318 Drummond Street, Nevada City, Phone 45 Vice President, Jonn Nettell, 216 Pleasant Street, Grass Valley, Phone 669 Secretary—Esther Hartung, 303 South Church Street, Grass Valley, Phone 552 Treasurer—Adelaide Elliott, North Bloomfield Road, Nevada City, Phone 610-M BOARD OF DIRECTORS Grass Valley, Mrs. Edna Sampson, Miss Bernice Glasson, John E. Nettell Nevada City, Isabell Hefelfinger, Mrs. Weselsky, Thomas W. Reynolds County at large, John Trauner, Mrs. Monian, Dr. E. J. Best Lyle White, Bulletin Editor To visit Museum by Appointment -——Phone Caretaker, Richard Nickless, Nevada City, Phone 152-J. at, ey Nevada County Historical Society April, 1960 Vol. 14, No. 1 1860 CENTENNIAL 1960 THE NEVADA CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT es FIRST PERMANENT FIREHOUSE OF NEVADA CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT. The home of Pennsylvania Engine Co., No. 2. Cornerstone laid with impressive ceremonies Oct. 17, 1860. Building finished and first occupied Jan. 14, 1861, Located on upper Broad Street, Nevada City, California. OFFICERS OF N.C.V.F.D. Front Row: L to R.—Richard A. Eddy, J. J. Hanley, Chief Robert Snell. Center Row: L. to R. — Mark Shaeffer, George Bond, Dwight Rolfe, Charles Grimes, Nick Sandow, Al Huson, James H, Hutchison, Dick Tremaine, E, W. Schmidt, Will Sigourney, Ed. J. Baker. Last Row: L. to R.—AI Snell, Fred Eilerman, Jim Gray, Tom Carr, Wm, Scott.