Firefighters of Northampton:
Present Day Firefighting  & Release of Book by Peter Norman  

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Date:
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 7 pm
Firefighters Tim McQuestion, Natalie Stollmeyer and Daryl Springman of Northampton Fire Rescue
Peter Norman, photographer and author of Northampton Fire Rescue
Northampton Fire Station, 26 Carlon Drive off King Street
Free and open to the public.  This program is for adults.

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Northampton Fire Rescue

Natalie Stollmeyer

John Betsold & Shawn Crimmins

Shawn Crimmins

Having shared the job of responding to emergency calls with a private ambulance company, the Northampton Fire Department took over responsibility for handling all emergency calls in Northampton in 2008.  This was a major undertaking, a key step in the twenty year project of building a new Northampton Fire Rescue Department. Here are indications of the breadth of the changes:

• In March 2019, the department responded to 646 calls, more than 20 calls a day.
• In 2018, each firefighter at Northampton Fire Rescue trained for close to 450 hours.

​What does the Northampton Fire Rescue do?  What do modern firefighters do? And how do they do it?

Three Northampton firefighters—Tim McQuestion, Natalie Stollmeyer and Daryl Springman —will address these questions. They will explain how and why the nature of the fires they handle has changed, how firefighters have responded to the consequences of these changes, and how rescues are done in difficult places.  

Local author and photographer Peter Norman will introduce his new book Northampton Fire Rescue and show some of the photographs he took of the firefighters at work.  All photographs shown here are by Peter Norman.

Jon Van'tland and
​Deputy Chief William Millin

Caleb Langer

Timoteo Soto