Both I and the Center Conway Fire Department turn 70 this year. Like me, the department started out with the bare essentials. In the photograph below, the charter members are standing in front of their only truck. Appropriately enough, their first station stood on the site of the Center Conway Grammar School, which had burned to the ground just prior to World War I.
The Brownfield fire of 1947 may have precipitated the formation of a fire department for the village. That disaster was a close call for Center Conway—which included South Conway, after the formation of the precinct. My grandparents spent one day that October sitting in the uppermost room of their house on Davis Hill, watching which way the smoke drifted to determine whether they should stay or flee. A northwest wind finally drove it away from them, but a shift to the east would have left South Conway in ashes.
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