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 Now, since there are more opportunities to get paid fighting fires, you don’t see as many volunteers, Handley said.

A positive change over the years has been in training and equipment. Pagers notify first responders of an emergency. Turnout gear protects them better. Thermal imaging cameras can locate victims.

“My first helmet was kind of like a tin helmet, then you went to a plastic helmet and none of that was really fire resistant,” said Frank Davis, of Vigilant Hose Company in Emmitsburg.

Davis has been running calls for 43 years, since he was 18. He is the emergency medical services captain at Vigilant Hose and a past chief. His father Allen inspired him to get into the fire service.

“Once it gets in your blood, it’s there,” Davis said.

Before the 911 system, the restaurant his parents owned, The Palms Restaurant, blew the siren to rally Emmitsburg’s firefighters, Davis said.

Alan Hurley, chief of Rocky Ridge Volunteer Fire Company, remembers when members used to fight to get on an engine.

“If you were a little slow, you weren’t on it,” said Hurley, 65.

Rocky Ridge Chief Alan Hurley (left) and firefighter Wesley Burrier on the roof at the scene of a chimney fire on Warner Road in 2018

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Hurley was drawn to firefighting when he began dating his future wife Bonny. He got to know her father Robert Albaugh, then an active member of Rocky Ridge.

Hurley has been volunteering for 44 years and is president of the Frederick County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association, which encompasses 25 area fire companies.

Hurley’s memories of training are a bit hazy, literally. He recalls training in an old box trailer. They’d fill it with smoke and send you in blindfolded with your breathing apparatus, he said.

 

 

 

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