Elk Run Volunteer Fire Company
About
About Elk Run
The Elk Run Volunteer Fire Company was organized in January, 1922, by nearly one
hundred citizens of the Second Ward, with the following officers: President,
James Padden: Vice President, WA. Stokes; Secretary, Robed Morgan; and
Treasurer, Fred Nouen.
Meetings were held for some time in
the Gutelius Store. That same year the company purchased from George W. Stokes
one of the best sites in Second Ward on Elk Run Avenue. No funds were available
for a building and meetings were held in the A4cKean Han Planing Mill until the
Spring of 1924, when through the financial aid of Burgess W.C. Tibby a one-story
building was erected on the lot owned by the company at a cost of $6~. This
building allowed room for the International Chemical Truck formerly in service
at West End Fire Company.
The company was chartered in 1927;
that same year it was necessary to add a second story to the building. Room was
thus made for the American LaFrance Chemical and Hose Truck, which the borough
had recently purchased for use. These alterations in the building, which were
made at an expense of over $10, provided a meeting room on the second floor.
This room is also used as the Election House of the Second Ward. Second
Precinct, as the meeting place of the American Legion Drum Corps, and of the Elk
Run Volunteer Fire Company Boys Band, which this company has sponsored.