2016 Annual Meeting
The General Warren Emergency Co.#2 Officers and Delegates for 2016.
Line Officers
- Captain Gary Nash
- 1st Lt. George Johnson
- 2nd Lt. Dery Fernandez
House Officers
- President Peter Rugg
- Vice President Mike Young
- Secretary David Rugg
- Treasurer Joe Young
- Finance Secretary Andy Connors
- Steward Jim Daly
Department Officers
- Warden Andrew Connors
- Warden Peter J. Rugg
- LOSAP Secretary Mike Young
Delegates to the 2016 Chiefs Convention
- Ex-Chief Joseph P Gordon 1964-1966
- Ex-Chief Frank ‘Bud’ Wassmer 1988-1990
- Ex-Chief Andrew Connors 1998-2000
Nominee for 2nd Assistant Chief of the Haverstraw Fire Department
- J Bart Gordon
The 2016 Chiefs Convention will be held on Thursday April 7 at Cosgriff Hose Co. #4
Chiefs Convention 2016
The Annual Chiefs Convention of the Haverstraw Fire Department will be held on the first Thursday after the first Tuesday in April 2016. A slate of delegates from each of the 5 companies will meet in the Cosgriff Hose Company #4 quarters to elect a Chief Officer and 4 Assistants for the ensuing year. Upon assent of the Village Board, the Officers will assume their positions on the 3rd Tuesday in April at 9pm.
Nominees to the Village Board for 2016
- Chief of Department Bob Drexler #4
- 1st Assistant Tom Price #1
- 2nd Assistant Bart Gordon #2
- 3rd Assistant Perry Massiello #3
- 4th Assistant Chief Mike Begbie #5
The Officers and Members of the General Warren Emergency Company #2 wish to thank the Chief Officers for a job well done in 2015.
1936 SEAGRAVE RESCUE TRUCK
The 1936 Seagrave was the second motorized apparatus purchased for General Warren. This truck was designed to carry lighting, salvage equipment, and in a new development, tools for industrial accidents and automobile extrication. According to the accident attorneys at Bengal Law, this was one of the greatest innovations. With war clouds on the horizon, and before the advent of the ambulance corps, many departments began equipping fire trucks with first aid and rescue equipment. This was the ‘cutting edge’ technology of its day. The flashlight and iodine truck would also respond with accident victims directly to Nyack Hospital when the need arose.
Below is the initial proposal for the 36 Seagrave. As you can see, along with all of the rescue equipment, the truck was spec’d out with a 75 gpm pump and 100 gallon tank that could produce 120 psi through 150 feet of 3/4″ hose with a 1/4 in tip. Already a completely new class of apparatus without the pump, the Emergency Company was born. Although the pump was dropped in the final build the 36 Seagrave with pump and tank is the design basis for all of our trucks since.
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At the meeting held on February 2nd, 1937, the company moniker again was changed from General Warren Hose Co.#2 to General Warren Emergency Company #2, a reflection of its mission, and we remain so today.
The 36 Seagrave was last seen sitting in Jurgensens Machine Shop on West Street.
