All volunteer · Since 1952
The Hollow needs firefighters.
Twenty-seven of your neighbors answer about 340 calls a year, at any hour, for nothing but the work itself. We train you. We outfit you. We need you.
Right now
Current notices
The Hollow needs firefighters
Twenty-seven volunteers cover 61 square miles. We train you, we outfit you, and nobody makes every call. Come to a training night and see if it fits.
How to joinEventFire Prevention Night
Bring the kids, see the trucks. Smoke-alarm batteries, the escape-plan table, cider and doughnuts, trunk-or-treat in the back lot. 5 to 8 p.m. at Station 1.
Details
Since 1952
The night the mill burned, and what came after
On a January night in 1951 the Cedar Hollow sawmill burned to the ground while the nearest engine came twenty miles over an icy road. Everyone in the Hollow stood in the snow and watched. By spring, thirty-one of them had signed a charter, and the next April a used 1946 pumper rolled into a borrowed garage on Mill Street.
Seventy-four years later the department is still every bit as volunteer. There are no hydrants outside the village, so the water rides with us. There is nobody sitting at the station, so the pagers go off in kitchens and barns and the back row of the school play. And about 340 times a year, somebody drops what they're doing and goes.
- Chartered
- 1952
- Volunteers
- 27
- Square miles
- 61
- Calls a year
- ~340
Halloween at the station
Fire Prevention Night, October 31
Bring the kids, see the trucks. From 5 to 8 p.m. the bay doors are open: climb on Engine 1, try the hose with a firefighter, pick up free smoke-alarm batteries and an escape-plan sheet, and finish with cider, doughnuts and trunk-or-treat in the back lot. Costumes welcome on both sides of the hose.
Leaf-burning season
Burn permits are required in the Hollow through May.
Leaves and brush only, in a pile you can step around, with a hose charged and someone watching until it is cold. No burning when the wind is up or the banner at the top of this page says so. Permits are free: call the station.
Recent responses
What the pager said
- 26-0291Oct 17Chimney fire · Ridge Road, upper end
- 26-0288Oct 15Brush fire · Quarry Lane
- 26-0286Oct 14Vehicle crash · Cedar Hollow Road at Mill Street
Coming up
Events
Next board meeting
Thursday, November 12, 7:00 p.m.
Station 1, meeting room · The department's board meets the second Thursday of the month. Residents welcome.
- Oct 27Training night: come see what we do · Station 1, Cedar Hollow Road at Mill Street · 7:00 p.m.
- Oct 31Fire Prevention Night · Station 1 · 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
- Dec 5Annual dinner and officer elections · Station 1 · 6:00 p.m.
The district
Three communities, one department
The Town of Cedar Hollow, Hollow Township and Ridge Township: about 61 square miles of village, farms, woodlots and ridge roads, with the old quarry at one end and the mill pond at the other. Hydrants stop at the village line; everything beyond it is tanker country.
Mutual aid with Pine Run Volunteer Fire Company and Stony Creek Fire-Rescue. Station 1, Cedar Hollow Road at Mill Street.
On the floor
Four rigs for 61 square miles
What happens when you call 911
Twenty-seven pagers, a drive to the station, and the first rig out. Why a volunteer response takes the minutes it takes.
How it worksCommunity
For residents
Burn permits, smoke alarms, what to do after a fire, how to get an incident report, and Fire Prevention Night.
CommunitySupportSupport the department
The junior program, Fire Prevention Night, the annual dinner, the training beyond the minimum. That's the community's part.
SupportSupport
The trucks are paid for. The rest is us.
The junior program, Fire Prevention Night, the annual dinner, the training beyond the minimum. That's the community's part.