BOLTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC.
UPDATED January 2025
2024 Proved to be a very busy year for Bolton Vol. Fire Department. 196 calls for service. The busiest year ever. We will post the breakdown of call type in the near future. 2025 Has the begining of another busy year. Five calls in the first two weeks of the new year with two of them being mutual aid for structure fires in Chestertown and Lake George.
The Bolton Vol. Fire Department would like to thank Firefighter John Urtz for thirty four years of service. John was one of the “Go To” guys in the department that we were able to count on as a day time driver/pump operator. Besides the calls that he responded to he did a lot of the behind the scenes work at the firehouse, spending many hours washing and detailing the fire apparatus. His retirement is well deserved and he will be missed.
2024 Year to Date Statistics
Year 2024 calls for service – 196
Training hours
In 2023 the members of the fire department accrued four hundred and fifty training hours. The is a combination of both in house weekly training and outside training that the members take on their own time. Most of the training hours for January and February (321 manhours) were spent on ice rescue training. With the mild winter and Lake George not freezing completly, but other local bodies of water freezing over it was imparative that we all become proficient in all aspects of ice and surface water rescue.