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Hamden Firefighting (Images of America)

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Incorporated in 1786, the town of Hamden covers nearly 33 square miles straight away north of New Haven, Connecticut. In spite of significant industrial growth within the early 19th century and a couple of devastating fires, Hamden had no organized firefighting forces until its first volunteer fire company was once organized in 1896. By 1925, the handful of independent volunteer fire companies that followed became the Hamden Fire Department. A predominantly volunteer force before World War II, the department grew to 55 career members by 1950 and to 124 by the mid-1980s. The ascendency of emergency medical services and products and, more recently, a concern for place of birth security have greatly expanded the department’s role in public safety. Even if 1990s municipal austerity measures reduced department size by 20 percent, with a population nowadays exceeding 60,000, fire department responses have increased to more than 10,000 calls once a year, of which 74 percent are for EMS.

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