CONWAY — At 11:06 a.m. Thursday morning, as a crowd of about 25 gathered below, the top girder for the North Conway Fire Department fire station now under construction was put into place by lead connector Russell Schultz and Darren Cushman, both of SL Chasse Steel of Hudson.
At one end of the white-painted beam was an American flag and at the other a red firefighters flag, as Schultz and Cushman gingerly worked with the crane operator to guide the autographed steel girder into place at the top of what will be the station’s fire hose tower.
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