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	<title>General Warren Emergency Company #2 &#187; History</title>
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		<title>Warning with Distinction: The Fire Whistle</title>
		<link>http://gwe2.org/2010/05/21/warning-with-distinction-the-fire-whistle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 09:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Front Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[44 Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diaphone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gamewell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Alert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quick Call]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rockland County Fire Control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The age old method to alert the membership to a fire alarm fell upon a Village watchman, who after hearing a resident scream, or when finding a fire, would run to the Methodist Church on Fourth Street and ring the bell to alert the membership. The brickyards had steam whistles that would sound on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excerpts of Village Minutes:The HFD 1854-1900</title>
		<link>http://gwe2.org/2010/05/01/excerpts-of-the-haverstraw-village-minutes-1854-1900/</link>
		<comments>http://gwe2.org/2010/05/01/excerpts-of-the-haverstraw-village-minutes-1854-1900/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 04:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[1854 Haverstraw Fire Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CM Fales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minutes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of our ongoing preservation effort, we have more interesting information on the Haverstraw Fire Department. Haverstraw Ex-Chief Smokey Fales (1933-34), who  was also Village Clerk, had gone through the Village Minutes and clipped any mentions of the Haverstraw Fire Department. What follows is basically the early history of the department as seen through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Combination</title>
		<link>http://gwe2.org/2010/04/17/the-combination-2/</link>
		<comments>http://gwe2.org/2010/04/17/the-combination-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[H.F.D.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Fales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cosgriff Hose #4]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Warren #2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Joachim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Feeney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lady Warren #5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relief Hose #3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Combination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Babcock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Pallett]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the first 80 years of the Haverstraw Fire Department, leadership was in the form of 1 Engineer, or Chief, and 2 Assistants, who were duly elected from 3 of the  5 companies. The Machine played a dominate role in early Haverstraw, and firehouses were the center of political life in the village. Politics also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Whence He Came: The General</title>
		<link>http://gwe2.org/2009/11/26/from-whence-he-came/</link>
		<comments>http://gwe2.org/2009/11/26/from-whence-he-came/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Front Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[155 Years]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1854]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank McKiernan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[H.F.D.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Ginnity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May15]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lodge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the enduring legacies of the General Warren Emergency Company #2 is the statue of General Joseph Warren. The General, a three foot high painted plaster likeness of the great man, has occupied its place in the company history and quarters for time immemorial. The origins of the General are unknown, and his being will be forever a mystery. In the mid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hose Carts</title>
		<link>http://gwe2.org/2009/09/17/the-hose-carts/</link>
		<comments>http://gwe2.org/2009/09/17/the-hose-carts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Apparatus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Front Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congers FD Steamer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire Hydrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handtub]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hose Carriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L. Button & Company]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During 1884, an application was received by the Village Board to supply Haverstraw with water, and shortly thereafter construction started on a pressurized water system. By 1885, it was recommended to the Board of Engineers that fire hydrants be placed throughout the Village to improve fire protection. This work was to commence the next spring, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researching Haverstraw</title>
		<link>http://gwe2.org/2009/08/09/researching-haverstraw/</link>
		<comments>http://gwe2.org/2009/08/09/researching-haverstraw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1854]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apparatus hobbyists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire whistle fanatics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genealogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[membership rolls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Who's Who of Haverstraw]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The  General Warren Emergency Company #2 has operated continuously for 155 years, and our records, photo&#8217;s and stories speak volumes of the history of the Village of Haverstraw and it&#8217;s Fire Department. As we entered our 150th year back in 2004, we had the ability to identify the names of all of our membership rolls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chiefs Convention Haverstraw Fire Department</title>
		<link>http://gwe2.org/2009/04/07/150th-annual-chiefs-convention-haverstraw-fire-department/</link>
		<comments>http://gwe2.org/2009/04/07/150th-annual-chiefs-convention-haverstraw-fire-department/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Convention]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chiefs Convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[H.F.D.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Combination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On February 14, 1859 the New York State Legislature passed an act which provided for, and regulated the election of a Chief and two Assistant Chiefs of the Fire Department of the Village of Warren, now Haverstraw, New York. The first convention held under this Act was on May 8 1859 in the United States Hotel , [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warning With Distinction: The Fire Whistle</title>
		<link>http://gwe2.org/2008/12/13/warning-with-distinction-the-fire-whistle-in-haverstraw/</link>
		<comments>http://gwe2.org/2008/12/13/warning-with-distinction-the-fire-whistle-in-haverstraw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[H.F.D.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diaphone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire Whistle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gamewell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haverstraw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warning With Distinction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gwe2.org/?p=170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The age old method to alert the membership to a fire alarm fell upon a Village watchman, who after hearing a resident scream, or when finding a fire, would run to the Methodist Church on Fourth Street and ring the bell to alert the membership. The brickyards had steam whistles that would sound on the north side of town. Near the turn of the 19th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass Casualty Drill September 1994</title>
		<link>http://gwe2.org/2008/09/16/mass-casualty-drill-september-1994/</link>
		<comments>http://gwe2.org/2008/09/16/mass-casualty-drill-september-1994/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[H.F.D.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mass Casualty Drill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mutual Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rockland County Fire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Almost 14 years ago, there was a Mass Casualty drill on the Bowline Property. General Warren participated, and here are the video&#8217;s. Thanks to Joey Click HERE for the Media page]]></description>
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		<title>Messenger Clippings: Formation of the H.F.D.</title>
		<link>http://gwe2.org/2008/06/12/messenger-clippings-formation-of-the-hfd/</link>
		<comments>http://gwe2.org/2008/06/12/messenger-clippings-formation-of-the-hfd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[H.F.D.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1853]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letter to Editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newspaper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rockland Messenger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Found recently were Newspaper clippings Smokey had on the Haverstraw Fire Department, General Warren, and the Village. Again, these are Messenger clippings that he typed out and had filed. Click Below to open in a PDF format]]></description>
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