From all of us at Broadalbin Kennyetto Fire Co, we would like to thank you for your continued support in everything we do. We are already at 23 calls for the year, and unforuntatly we had a few chimney fires. So, with that said, PLEASE CLEAN YOUR CHIMNEYS! We do not like to meet you on unfortunate circumstances.

We recently had our annual Firemans Instaillation Banquet, hosted by Perthshire, in Perth, NY. To all ov our invited guests thank you for coming, and we hope that you had a great time!

Welcome our 2012 Officers:

Chief: Scot Hall
1st Assistant Chief: Archie Rose
2nd Assistant Chief: Chris Funk
1st Captain: Scott Porter
2nd Captain: Aarom Bogusz
1st Lt: Brian Cornell
2nd Lt: Darryl White
3rd Lt: Neil Bartholoma
4th Lt: Troy LaPorte
5th Lt: Sean Knabner
Safety Officer: Robert Zurlo
Safety Officer: Robert Rosenzweig

President: Robert Rosenzweig
Vice President: Caryl Smith
Treasure: Tom Traskos
Secretary: Keith Bartholoma

This years 2012 Fire Police:
Fire Police Chief: Keith Bartholoma
Charlie VanDuesen
Steven Morey
Ed Zayicek
Darian Morey
Sonny Pettit
Rodney Sweet
Scott Morey

This years 2012 Ladies Auxiliary officers:
 
President: Susan T. Zurlo
 Vice President: Deb Wells
 Secretary: Mary Zayicek
 Treasure: Angela Funk

From all of us at the Broadalbin Kenyetto Fire Company, we just want to thank you, the community, for all of your support in everything that we do. With fall approaching, we remind you to please get your chimney cleaned and inspected before you use it.

On November 18, 1877 a very destructive fire consumed the Broadalbin Baptist Church, its horse sheds, four barns, three houses, one cow and other miscellaneous items. At that time Broadalbin was without any organized means of combating the flames!

The severity of this conflagration stirred the local citizens into joining together to investigate the need, and process, of forming a fire company.

On June 8, 1878 the citizens of Broadalbin and Vail Mills met in the upper room of W. H. Halliday’s harness shop for the purpose of organizing a fire company. One month later they took delivery of a “Little Giant” fire engine. It used a “chemical fluid” and it cost $500.00.

The equipment was stored in rented barns until October 1886 when a new frame structure firehouse was built on School Street, to provide the first firehouse for Broadalbin. The cost was $419.04.

Our company was incorporated following a meeting on October 2, 1886.

Broadalbin was the third community in Fulton County to have a fire company, having been preceded by the villages of Gloversville and Johnstown (now cities).

Our first motorized fire fighting unit was a 1924 Reo Speedwagon truck, outfitted by the Foamite–Childs Corporation of Utica, NY as a fire truck.

A big step forward in the combating of village fires came when a municipal water system was installed in 1928.

When you see the equipment available to the firefighters of today and compare it to the very limited tools and machines of the early twentieth century it is easy to understand why there were so many large and serious fires in earlier days.

Written by: Gordon Cornell ( Former BKFC Historian)