Friday, December 7, 2007

Rudolph’s Residence Burns Again

December 7, 1879 at 2:00 a.m. Shippensburg firemen again responded to the Henry Rudolph residence at Main and Penn Streets for a building fire. Just five days prior the bakery and residence suffered a devastating fire; all the undamaged goods were placed on the second floor of the residence that was not affected. All of those belongings were destroyed in this fire. Firemen drew water from the same well and cistern they used to fight the first fire. Local officials believe the fire was intentionally set. A damage estimate was not available. The Vigilant and Cumberland Valley Fire companies answered the alarm.

The photograph is of the West End Fire and Rescue Company's award recipients at their annual banquet held on December 7, 1991, three of these individuals are still active in the SFD. Like the Vigilant photo from 1981 I will let you name the players.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Chad Smith, ? , Dave Commerer, Jamie White, Pork Stevens

Anonymous said...

Jimmy Glass

Anonymous said...

Ok Brad, are you going to let us know how we did on our guesses?

Jonesy said...

Hoss is correct, Wally the #2 person is Curt Miller.

Brad Myers said...

Hoss you are right and the other one is Curt Miller as Eric said. When I get home from work tonight I will post what they one at the banquet.

Jonesy said...

I'm gonna guess in order : FF of the year, rookie of the year,dragon of the year, chiefs award and pres. award.

Anonymous said...

Jonesy, now that is some funny stuff Dragon of the Year!

Brad Myers said...

Eric you did pretty good, here is what you missed, Commerer, Award Of Excellence, Jamie White, award for doing an outstanding job during the year and Pork appreciation award for being the out going president. I will nedd to dig up some older ones for other post.