Volunteers
The modern equipment and firemen are
as near as your telephone when you need
them.
Have you ever tried to decide
which group of people in the com
munity is the most essential to its
welfare—which group you’d miss
most if they moved away?
Doctors and nurses would prob
ably be the first group that you’d
think of—or maybe the minister
or policemen. But, eventually an
other vital but less publicized
group would pop up for consid
eration—the Volunteer Firemen.
Vital to the welfare of any com
munity which cannot afford paid
firemen are these volunteer fire
fighters. On emergency calls
twenty-four hours a day, seven days
a week, they serve their commu
nity, sometimes at the risk of their
lives and without compensation.
Our own community is fortu
nate in having one of the best vol
unteer departments in the nation,
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The Brevard Fire Department. Standing, left to
right: Dan Merrill, D. R. Boyd, Frank Bridges,
fames Bridges, Ted McCrary, Allison Orr, Roy
McCall, Fred Taylor, Luke Harrison, Roy Gallo
way, Jiggs Price and Fritz Merrell. The driver is
Robert Kilpatrick. On the truck, left to right: Bud
Galloway, James Simpson, and John Ford, Jr. Ab
sent when the photo was taken were: Few Lyda,
Calvin McCrary, Charles Himes, Malcolm Hamil
ton, Donald Kilpatrick, Mascot, and Rev. B. W.
Thomason, Chaplin.