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FLFD OrganizedDecember 4, 1924

Franklin Lakes was formed as a Borough in 1922. Two years later in the Winter of 1924, the Borough still had no fire protection. On December 4, with a blizzard raging outside, the gentlemen citizens of Franklin Lakes held an open meeting to discuss the formation of a Volunteer Fire Company.

The Mayor of Franklin Lakes at the time, William Valentine Pulis spoke of being strongly in favor of creating our own department and Harry Gale McNomee of the Oakland Fire Department was invited to speak to the assembled group on the efforts necessary to form a fire company.

At the conclusion of the meeting, twenty-five men stepped up and became the founders of the Franklin Lakes Fire Department.

 

Original Members who signed up 12/4/24

Alfred H. Ackerman
William H. Ainlay
Frederick Bender
Robert Bender
Roy Bender
Samuel Bowers
Samuel Bowers,Jr.
C.H. Bush
Ernest E. Bush
Kendall W. Chilton
E.F. Clark
Mike Cook
Harry E. Estes Jr.
Claude C. Ferdinand
Aaron Hopper
John A. Hopper
Stephen Jackson
Albert Lozier
John Howard Payne
Dewitt Pruden
William Pulis
William V. Pulis
John R. Sanders
Delbert Teter
J. G. Valentine
Ezra Voorhis

It should be noted that at this meeting it was decided that because of the foul weather that the new department would actively seek to add members through the beginning of the new year. A 1934 publication for the 10th Anniversary of the FLFD shows the following men added to the Charter as founding members:

A.Z. Ackerman
Robert Allen
Harry Atema
August Bender
Charles Bowers
M.W. Burnish
Roy Bush
Dennis Butler
Harry Carlough
K.W. Chilton
Henry L. Clark
W.H. DeBrot
George C. Demarest
J.R. Ewing
Charles Fox
Charles J. Fox
Edward Gorman
Francis Gorman
Frank Heath
August Hilbig
Stephen Jackson
F.L. Kackenmacher
Joseph Masker
Harry McKee
Hiram Meredith
Geo. J. Paterson
John B. Protheroe
A.W. Ramsey
L.S. Reyenga
Angelo Rizzo
R.T. Rothwell
F.P. Sanders
F.H. Schefers
Norman F. Sisco
William F. Sisco
Clarence Smith
John B. Storms
John R. Van Houten
John C. Vermuelen
Henry Voorhis
Arnold Walders
Henry Zuhr

Meeting minutesNovember 24,1908 - May 2, 1910

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Territory identifiedDecember 14, 1908

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