Narrowsburg firefighters celebrate 100th with a bang

By TOM KANE

NARROWSBURG — Mobs of people turned out to help the Narrowsburg Fire Department celebrate its 100th anniversary. They lined the streets, sat on the roofs of buildings and cheered all the visiting firefighters as they paraded by.

	TRR photo by David Hulse The Narrowsburg Fire Department marches up Main Steet. (Click for larger image)

“This was the best parade ever,” said Tom Wood of the fire company, one of the organizers of the event that included a picnic and rides at the Lander’s Campground flats.

Festivities were held on Friday and Saturday, July 5 and 6, with the parade and fireworks on the 6th.

Fireworks at 10:00 p.m. on Saturday elicited Ohs! and Ahs! from residents and visitors.

Over 20 neighboring fire companies, many of their members marching in phalanx and full uniform, and several ambulance corps participated in the parade. The Port Jervis Broome Street Traveling All-Star band marched twice around the parade route, enhancing the festivities with a sparkling military beat.

State Senator John Bonacic waved to the crowd as he rode by in a car. Bonacic was recently a benefactor to the town by providing state funding to restore sidewalks and a new street surface to Main Street.

Earlier, on Friday, residents and visitors were entertained by a band called Scooter Hall and a drum circle was held on Saturday night by the Dancing Bear Country group from Greeley, PA.

Together with the Narrowsburg Chamber of Commerce, the department volunteers brought in a variety of vendors, games, rides and contests. One such contest was a water-carrying race among all the fire companies. The objective was to see which team had the best time in carrying water from a trough, up a ladder and into a large barrel. In the process, water was dumped on people as well as into the barrel.

At the end of the contest, it wasn’t clear who won but everybody got wet.