AROUND
THE FIREHOUSE
Eng 4 crew
12/10/2005 3rd alarm Sheraton hotel
L-R Lt A Cox,Tony Amato, Pete Vello,Matt Pacheco
(photos Dave Steward)
12/10/2005 busy day 2nd alarm Holiday inn Newton
(photos Dave Steward)
l'm sorry, l couldn't resist
Left; Stopping by Jimmy Boudreau's house to wish
him well after
a recent sickness, Right; Greg Gentile watching the party
(photos Dave Steward)
Xmas 2005, Santa , Cinderella and all the characters
visit the Hospital children's
ward and make the rounds thru out the city giving cheer then off to the post 440
for the xmas party for the kids
(photos Dave Steward)
It's golf time again, this year the BRAE BURN CC
was the lucky recipient
of the NFD golf tournament. It was a good turn out despite the weather and it
was good to see
a lot of the old 'guard' like former Chief of Dept.Ed Murphy and the King Bros,
Donald and Bobby
It don't get any better, a little boy and his
papa
(John Clisham & his grandson)
Every one is getting fat from all the retirement
dinners, this one is for Jay Leone
master of ceremonies Mark Roche was in rare
form
Out with the old,in with the new,L. new C2A Chip
Wansiewicz replacing old C2A
Jay Leone on the right; center Deputy Chief Bill Carvelli
The guys gathered for a nice little good bye dinner
for retiree Lt Paul Bari
at the Chateau in Waltham, the food was good and so were the mandatory jolls
Pictures of the possible new truck for the city, a
105 ft tower, seeing if it fits in the station,
Deputy Chief Carvelli poses with an old friend, sales rep for the company
Somerville Lieutenant Bob Wilker
Eng 4 crew manning a line at Weston's 3rd alarm
9/12/05
Then and now ,31 years ago Kathy's
grandfather took Jimmy Trudo and Kathy Rizza to
the fire house, now 31 years later, Kathy is driving Jimmy again, Jimmy is
now a lieutenant and Kathy the driver on Lad 1
Guess who, Ray Mac, running Falmouth road race
Eng 1crew, Lt. Sbordone,Beth Davis,Mark Kaufman
Lt.Paul Bari decided to retire so it's time to cut
the "who" cake, have some good chow,
pose for a group picture and raise the shirt up to the rafter's
(photo's Dave Steward)
What is the lieutenant saying?
Hey Beth where are all the Moosh's? What's this a
Jivel truck?
OVER HEERE!
Tony Lochiatto stands with the men on his last tour
Some of the men on Capt Hays last day
Firefighters have changed over the years
Line Backer for the Bay state warriors
Ann French of Eng 4
center; Sta 4 commander Rick Hay poses with the men
at his last day of duty after 32 years
of service
new station 4 commander Gino "bilko"
Luchetti- some of the "old guard"
center; Dick "jocko"Malone,right Bob "the Greek" Negrotti
John Marrazzo decided to retire, Family and
coworkers got together at the station
for some cake, also Steve Proia shown with John is also retiring he has one more
shift to go
The passing of a proud Work Horse-6/30/05, Eng 6
last day of duty as a Fire Truck,
the men have a last meal together as Eng 6 crew, right; it was also's Ricky
DeSimone
birthday so the men had a cake with a delicious Joll frosting
The men of Eng 6 and the NFD would like to thank David and Jerry at 1000 Comm ave
more
affectionately known as ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummy Jerry
Mahoney for all they have done
(pic's A.French)
Memorial Sunday, honoring our own,a"great showing" of
men were
present
Front row kneeling on the left, Lt Mike
Murphy of Eng 10 shown here taking a picture with
the cast of the TV show RESCUE ME, the Lieutenant had a bit part on the
show
May 2005 Police Officer Carol
Mansfield Roche retired and her last call as a police officer
was with her husband Fire Captain Mark Roche, the call was for a auto accident
The latest addition to the Newton fire dept fleet,
thanks to the tireless efforts
of Capt Roche the wire dept has a new utility vehicle, shown here he's
checking with the motor
mechanic making sure that all the lettering and markings are right
(pict dave stewart)
A couple of "teams", left Husband and
wife team Bob and Beth Davis
right; Father and son Donny and son Greg Gentile
(pict dave stewart)
l believe that this man has an identity problem, must
be that water in
upper falls
(pict. dave stewart)
Promotion time, Kevin Fitzgerald, Doug Quinn got
promoted to Lieutenant
and the guys gathered to wish them luck, plus have some cake and ice cream
04/18/2005 Bonwood St 3rd alarm
Standing down Bonwood st
Jim Bright, Kevin Fitz, Tony Amato,and Shawn
Murphy show what those
Jakes in California and Florida are missing, fighting a fire in heavy snow and 3
degree temp.
1/23/05 3rd alarm Gables Dedham st
Lt. John "Bo" Clisham decided it was time
to retire so the men and woman
got together for a little cake and ice cream on his last shift
(notice just cake on the table)
Seems 1973 was a banner year at Newton High School, a lot of distinguished
firefighters
and police are members of that stellar year, shown here are 3 fine members
of the class of "73" L-R Capt. Roche, Class valedictorian Chip
Wansiewicz,
and Deputy Bill Carvelli
A large number of men and women retired in
2004 pictured from left to right
Steve Gallant, hidden Jimmy Antonellis,Dave Cawley,Rick Trishitta,
John Mathews,Kenny Schmitt,John Lucas,Mike Greeley,Rick Mclean,
Andrea Myers,Jimmy Notartomaso,John Eagan
What's good about the retirement dinners is you get
to see some old faces
L-R .Al Comeau,George Anderson,Harold Green,Cecil "tex" Linton
Getting together talking about when men were men
and the ladders were wooden
Johnny "smoke"Cedrone, Greeley Bros.
Billy and John
