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Tales From the Station
We have had to deal with a lot of old or used trucks in the history of the HAVFD. One of them was a 100 foot ladder truck. This ladder truck had just that, a ladder, that you had to climb! This...
Tales From the Station
The Hogansburg Akwesasne Volunteer Fire Department has a unique makeup with a station in New York, a station in Ontario and a station in Quebec. This causes some confusion at times with both countries...
HAVFD gives away Rhino in Father’s Day Raffle
The third annual HAVFD raffle was held on Father’s Day, June 15, 2008. The prizes for this years raffle were: A 2008 Custom Yamaha Rhino provided...
Abandoned house burns in suspicious fire
The Hogansburg Akwesasne Volunteer Fire Department was called to a structure fire early Saturday morning. A one story abandoned house located across...
Tales From the Station
Way back in the formative years of the fire department there was little in the way of capital purchases. The department just didn’t have any money because very few people in the community had any...
HAVFD hosts AVET Course
On Saturday and Sunday the Hogansburg Akwesasne Volunteer Fire Department hosted a New York State Accident Victim Extrication Training (AVET) course....
Tales From the Station
One of the things the fire department used to do was put on a picnic for the members and their families. Sometimes this was a small event with everyone getting together for a barbeque and sometimes it...
Tales From the Station
When bad weather hits we can usually be found at the fire station waiting out a storm. One summer day the alarm went off and we were told to man our stations due to a severe storm heading right for us...
Tales From the Station
One of the things the fire department does is provides safety coverage at the racetrack. The crew is all volunteer from within the volunteer fire department so you can see how it is specialized. Dad...
Carey Terrance takes Modified win in Cornwall
On Sunday night Cornwall Motor Speedway had a big night of racing. After a washed out first night which saw only two features run the rest of the...
Tales From the Station
I have a hard time finding a place on the Marine Unit since other firefighters live closer to the station than I do. I usually get there to see the boat loaded and someone saying there’s enough...
Tales From the Station
The HAVFD didn’t start out in the same manner it’s operating currently. In fact, we used to be called “Cellar Savers” due to the large amount of fires that resulted in smoking basements. Well...
Tales From the Station
We got a call one night to respond to a boat on fire. It was one of those rare occasions that I got to drive a truck. Usually, I’m one of the farthest members from the station so before I get there...
Tales From the Station
During grass fire season we hear a lot of excuses. We arrived on the scene of a large grass fire that extended for acres. This fire required every piece of equipment we had staged at two roads and a l...
Tales From the Station
The springtime of the year in Akwesasne is usually punctuated by columns of smoke, blue and red lights and the rush of firefighters organizing to put out a fire. The only thing missing is the sirens....
Tales From the Station
We got called to a grass fire down on the point and we headed down there with the fire truck and our brush truck, a six wheeled monstrosity dubbed a “gamma goat”. We were at the end of a new road...
Demonstration Toastmasters meeting held at AMC
Seaway Toastmasters from Cornwall held a demonstration Toastmasters Meeting at the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino on Monday, April 7, 2008. The meeting had...
Pre-Employment Assistance Program graduates nine participants
The Akwesasne Economic Development Agency (AEDA) partnered with the Akwesasne Area Management Board (AAMB) to develop a Pre-Employment Assistance...
HAVFD kicks off Father’s Day Raffle
The Hogansburg Akwesasne Volunteer Fire Department kicked off their annual raffle this year with a set of new prizes. This year first prize is a Custo...
Tales From the Station
Just before spring in the latter days of winter, the sap starts flowing and the sugar shacks start up. You can see people gathering sap all around the woods where the maple trees have been tapped....
Tales From the Station
During the spring time we always had a problem with flooding. None more so than the great flood of ’81. The station was situated on a riverbank not more than fifty feet from the water. On top of tha...
Tales From the Station
One of the problems encountered in the fire service is stuck valves. Most of the time it’s caused by not using the valves for long periods of time. Myself, I was running an engine one time when...
Tales From the Station
We have to operate on site and we don’t get to choose the locations that we respond to when the alarm goes off. Quite often when you see us we’re putting our gear on alongside the road. This cause...
Tales From the Station
We go out in the worst possible weather, that’s usually when Murphy’s Law asserts itself. Everyone can relate to Murphy’s Law that states “When something can go wrong, it will go wrong and at...
Tales From the Station
One thing firefighters find out right away is that they’re going to fall down a lot in their fire service career. When I first got in the fire department we were experiencing a spike in structure...