The department in pictures

Press coverage of the North Rose Fire Department — titled articles and newspaper pages preserved from the archive. (60 photographs)

• “Work on Cold Storage” — construction of the new chemical cold storage at North Rose to begin, Carver & Wadsworth of Fulton contracted at $15,200, The Lake Shore News, 1889
• “Organization of Fire Company, Friday Evening, Apr. 9” — The North Rose Advocate, 1915
• “Seth Oaks Says He Is Getting Plenty of Action” — The Lake Shore News, October 1918
• “North Rose Fire Co. Election” — annual meeting of the North Rose Chemical Company, January 1919
• “The North Rose Advocate discontinued publication this week” — The Lake Shore News, 5 June 1919
• Fire company annual election of officers — The Lake Shore News, January 1921
• House fire on the Lamb farm — the North Rose Chemical Company responds, The Lake Shore News, April 1923
• “North Rose Apprehensive; Second Big Fire in Week” — General Cold Storage fire, 16 August 1923
• “North Rose Apprehensive; Second Big Fire in Week” — The Lake Shore News, August 1923
• General Cold Storage fire, continued — pumper from Lyons, 14,000 gallons hauled by locomotive, August 1923
• General Cold Storage fire, continued — $50,000 loss and calls for a water works system, August 1923
• “Items From North Rose; Fire Protection Needed” — $7,500 appropriation proposed, November 1923
• North Rose Chemical Company disbands and the Salter Hose Company is organized — $7,500 voted for a new motor fire truck, December 1923
• “Splendid Fire Truck” — the new Larrabee apparatus exhibited in Wolcott, The Lake Shore News, September 1924
• “Firemen’s Convention — Lake Shore Volunteers at North Rose Today” — full column, 18 July 1935
• 1935 Firemen’s Convention, part 1 — Lake Shore Volunteer Firemen’s association elects officers at North Rose, 18 July 1935
• 1935 Firemen’s Convention, part 2 — Wolcott sends 60 uniformed men and the Leavenworth Central School Military band, 18 July 1935
• 1935 Firemen’s Convention, part 3 — 1,200 uniformed men parade, with sports and band concerts near the North Rose Central school, 18 July 1935
• “North Rose Gets Fire Truck Amid Elaborate Ceremonies” — 12-year-old Glen Mills Jr. hands Chief Arthur C. Hill the keys, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 6 June 1938
• Gray Street barn fire, part 1 — $2,000 blaze threatens the heart of North Rose, The Lake Shore News, 7 July 1938
• Gray Street barn fire, part 2 — Robert Dickinson, aged 70, works his home-made chemical fire truck to save a neighbouring home, The Lake Shore News, 7 July 1938
• “North Rose Fair?” — talk of a fall fair and a good used ambulance, The Lake Shore News, 13 October 1938
• “Ambulance Purchased — North Rose Firemen Hold Fair to Raise Funds” — The Lake Shore News, 27 October 1938
• Four-night fair for first-aid equipment, and the good-humoured rivalry between President Paul “Whitey” McOmber and Chief Arthur J. “Butch” Hill, The Lake Shore News, 17 November 1938
• “Twice Wounded North Rose Man Offers to Give Blood to Mates” — Staff Sgt. William Ward Tompkins, wounded at Gela and again on D-Day, volunteers his blood while convalescing in England, 1944
• “No. Rose Firemen Plan to Honor Charter Members” — dinner at Lotus Lodge, 26 February 1948, with Harry Partrick as company historian
• “7 Fires in Week Keep Things Hot For Firefighters” — North Rose, Rose, Wolcott and McQueen Bros. respond to the George Fitch barn and silo fire, The Lake Shore News, July 1948
• “Firemen Answer 64 Calls in Year” — a record alarm count for 1949, including the Carmen Withey home on Main Street, The Lake Shore News, January 1950
• “Firemen Slate 3-Day Carnival In North Rose”, part 1 — dedication of the new Firemen's Field and a demonstration of the new fire truck, The Lake Shore News, 4 August 1949
• “Firemen Slate 3-Day Carnival In North Rose”, part 2 — some 275 firemen from thirteen companies expected in the Friday night parade, The Lake Shore News, 4 August 1949
• “Flames Destroy Salter Co. Truck Tuesday Evening” — a nearly-new Salter Canning Co. pickup burns on the Lasher Farm, North Wolcott, The Lake Shore News, August 1949
• “Passenger Talks Self Into Arrest” — Albert Mahar, 22, fined in traffic court following a reckless driving arrest in Syracuse, The Post-Standard, 16 October 1949
• “Fire Forces Join To Battle Clyde $500,000 Blaze” — North Rose among the companies marshalled at the Clyde Cold Storage and G.L.F. plant fire, The Lake Shore News, January 1950
• “Firemen Give Blood for Boys in Korea” — North Rose firemen at the Rochester Red Cross Bloodmobile in Wolcott, The Lake Shore News, 4 January 1951
• “Firemen Give Blood for Boys in Korea” — full front page, The Lake Shore News, Wolcott, Thursday 4 January 1951
• “Grass Fire Burns 25 Acres in Huron” — Wolcott and North Rose firemen, an orchard sprayer and a McQueen Bros. fog truck stop the flames six feet from the Snyder house; Dean of North Rose supplied water by tank truck
• “Merchant Retires After 37 Years in North Rose”, part 1 — Marvin W. Winchell recalls the worst fire in the village's history, The Lake Shore News, 2 September 1954
• “Merchant Retires After 37 Years in North Rose”, part 2 — rebuilding in the Harry Quereau block, put up in 1918 to replace the buildings destroyed by fire, The Lake Shore News, 2 September 1954
• “Flames Destroy 3-Story Cottage At Sodus Bay”, part 1 — North Rose firemen under Chief Paul McOmber first on scene at LeRoy's Island, The Lake Shore News, 16 February 1956
• “Flames Destroy 3-Story Cottage At Sodus Bay”, part 2 — 600 feet of hose laid to the bay and portable pumps used to protect a shed holding 500 gallons of kerosene, The Lake Shore News, 16 February 1956
• “Fire Prevention Program Set For Rose, North Rose Pupils” — Junior Fire Marshal week at North Rose Central School, 3 October 1957
• “New Addition” — North Rose volunteers with their new International fire truck, Chief Whitey McOmber and Assistant Chiefs Gerald Guthrie and Jack Marshall, The Lake Shore News, 18 December 1958
• The new truck described — V-196 International chassis, 750-gpm two-stage Hale pump, 600 gallons of water and aluminium ladders, replacing the 1937 REO, The Lake Shore News, 18 December 1958
• “Cornerstone Ceremony” — fire commissioners lay the cornerstone for the new North Rose fire hall: Bernard Farnsworth, Lloyd Richardson (who donated the stone), Elery Mills, Ward Buhlmann and Paul Marshall, Chatfield Photo, 23 August 1962
• New fire hall construction on Huron Street — land donated to the firemen by Flora Hill and her daughters in memory of Arthur Hill; commissioners Marshall (chairman), McQueen (secretary), Farnsworth, Ward and Elery Mills; cornerstone laid, 1962
• “Interior and Exterior Views” of the North Rose Volunteer Fire Department emergency truck, shown during the $5,000 fund drive for a new emergency unit, The Lake Shore News, 25 November 1965
• The Lake Shore News, 3 February 1966 — page 1
• The Lake Shore News, 3 February 1966 — page 2
• “Dianne Edwards Wins 2nd Prize for Apple Essay” — a condensed history of the North Rose dried-apple and cold-storage industry, Hoffman historical essay contest, Finger Lakes Times, 6 March 1967
• “Community Support Means New Ambulance” — fund drive chairman Don MacDougall thanks the N. Rose–Huron Fire District; displaying the 1969 Ford, left to right, Donald MacDougall, Lloyd Richardson, Chief Gerry Guthrie and Jack Marshall, 31 July 1969
• “New Emergency Vehicle” — the department's first aid sled and snowmobile crew, donated by Galvin Bros. Ford of Wolcott: Lloyd Richardson, Don Mills, Bob Galloway, Ken Yates, Chester Smith, Scott Smith and Richard Weed, 1970
• “Rescue Squad Certified” part 1 — the Emergency Rescue Squad meets New York State Health Department standards as a Certified Ambulance Service, 1980
• “Rescue Squad Certified” part 2 — equipment, staffing and 24-hour availability standards met voluntarily for the North Rose–Huron district, 1980
• “Kids & Fire Trucks Mix Well” by Bill Foley — kindergarten classes tour the fire house during Fire Prevention Week with Bob Guthrie and Ed Thomas, Wayuga Community Newspapers, 13 October 1983
• “Northeast Wayne ALS At Rose Grange” — AEMT-IIIs Bruce Lee and Carol Beldue with Tom Cole present the fly-car programme dispatched alongside North Rose emergency services, 16 May 1986
• Flag pole dedication at the North Rose Fire Hall — Auxiliary president Becky Thomas presents the American flag to department president Fred Jenks, dedicated to the deceased members of the department, 1987
• “North Rose Sports New Ambulance” — the Wheeled Coach Type II van with Chief Bob Guthrie, Mark Carney, Richard Campbell and Richard Wigfield, Wayuga Community Newspapers, 28 April 1988
• “Newman Retires As Fire Chief” by Eudora Fox — Jack Newman honoured after 21 years as Rose fire chief; Scott Converse and Mike Frazer present the clock, 1989
• “Thanks to NR Fire Department” — letter from Mary Jane Matteson Mumby recalling her father's years answering the “fire phone” above the Knotty Pine Restaurant, The Lake Shore News, 30 May 2012
• “Look Ma, I'm A Fireman” — North Rose youngsters play fireman at the department's open house: Steve and Rich Guthrie, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Guthrie, and Mike and Bob Terhune, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Terhune

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