NMFD Honors First Fallen Firefighter
Fire Department honors the 30th anniversary of the passing of William Entwistle in the January 1983 Borough Hall fire.
The New Milford Fire Department marked the 30th Anniversary of the January 1983 fire at Borough Hall that took the life of 22-year old William Entwistle. Entwistle, the first firefighter to lose his life in the line of duty, was remembered at a ceremony that took place Thursday evening at the monument on the front lawn of Borough Hall. Firefighter Bill Drew, who remembered seeing Entwistle climbing the stairs to the attic of Borough Hall as he was climbing down because his air pack was nearing empty, said, "It's not the years in his life, but the life in his years that we remember tonight." The fire, caused by a short circuit in the attic storage of Borough Hall, took the efforts of three fire departments to extinguish--New Milford, River …
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Steve Gompertz
1:50 pm on Thursday, March 28, 2013
I graduated with Billy. Whenever I think of him, I always see a big smile on his face. He was a great guy who was taken from us much too soon. Too bad there weren't any pictures of him for the article. more ›