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A well-deserved honor Town Council names firefighter with 50 years of service as Volunteer of the Year By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER
Erica Schmitt | Staff
For his 50 years of volunteer firefighting, Richard Brown was just named Volunteer of the Year by the Newington Town Council.
His long-time service as a volunteer firefighter in Newington earned Richard Brown, 76, the town’s annual award for Volunteer of the Year. But Brown isn’t simply this year’s top volunteer; he’s spent the last 50 years of his life in altruism; fighting fires and saving lives in the town he calls home. The Town Council considered a variety of nominees during the last couple months and a sub-committee of Councilors Maureen Klett and Beth DelBuono ultimately narrowed it down to Brown. “He was certainly a very deserving honoree with an extensive history of volunteerism,” Klett said of their choice. Brown began working in Newington’s Civil Defense Fire Unit as a bright-eyed teenager but through his years of service, he learned that firefighting is so much more than he thought. “When you’re 16 years old, you join because of the excitement,” he said. “But when you get older you realize it’s about the satisfaction of helping somebody in
their time of need.” In Brown’s early years, the department used the Buffalo 1929 fire engines that now have antique status in their home at the old firehouse on Main Street. Because one had to be 21 to enter the fire department back then, he was in basic training for five years before officially joining in 1956. “It seems like there were a lot of hurricanes back in those days but we were active at some big fires, too,” Brown recollects. After graduating from the University of Hartford, he took a job in Greentown, Ohio, population 1,000. Not a lot of fires to fight there. When Brown returned to Connecticut, he bought a house in Enfield because he couldn’t afford to See LOCAL, Page 6
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