36 Students Graduate from FF-1 Training

On January 12, 2023, Dutchess County FF-1 Class had their graduation ceremony at the New Hamburg Fire Department. The 36 students went through many weeks of classroom and hands-on training. Thirty-three students were from Dutchess County and three from Putnam County. In attendance were about 130 family members, friends, chiefs,and officers of the students. Also in attendance were the Dutchess County Volunteer Firemen’s Association which handed out certificates along with a patch and a year’s m embership in the DCVFA. Keynote speaker Dana Smith from the Dutchess County Emergency Response congratulated the students and told t hem to never stop learning. The people responsible for all these students get- ting through this course is fire Instructor Dan Shultz and his team of instructors and the many departments who sent apparatus to the class to help the students get through their evolutions. The Fire Fighter 1 class was so pleased with Instructor Dan Shultz that they presented Instructor Shultz with a Halligan bar with each student’s name on it.

- Fire News photo by Vinny Galvin, DCVFA

Dutchess VFAElections for2023

On January 17, 2023, the Dutchess County Volunteer Firemen’s Association held theirannual election meeting at the S.W. Johnson Fire Company 2 in Wappingers Falls. The results of the election were as follows: Robert Boyles, President; John O’Brien, 1st Vice President; Kyle Pottenburgh, 2nd Vice President; Vincent Galvin, Financial Secretary; Mike Schappert, Treasurer; Jack Schmidt, Director; John Pomerico, Director; Robert Ruston, Director; and Russell Boyles, Recording Secretary. The association is looking good forthe new year.

- Fire News photo by Vinny Gavin