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161 Vanadium Road
Bridgeville PA 15017-3025
Business Phone 412-221-3497
Fax 412-221-3990
Hall Rentals 412-221-9073
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January 25, 2009
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The
history that follows is
necessarily
incomplete in spite of its (probably excessive) length, and much of it
is anecdotal. Most of
the written records of
the
department and of the township from earlier than September of 1956 were
lost in
the hurricane-related Chartiers Creek flood of August 6th of that year.
(If
history's any guide, we get a really big hurricane-spawned flood here
about every 16 years, though we managed to skip one in 1988
somehow. So
the next one is due around 2020
or so. We're ready now, anyway.) We welcome any additions or
corrections to the facts presented here, and any additional insights
into this
history. One of the chief hazards of the World Wide Web is its ability
to
disseminate incorrect information so quickly and widely. On the other
hand, its
volatility means that mistakes can be corrected just as easily. We’d
like to
have this history be as accurate as possible. We’ll save
comprehensivity
for another site or another medium, some other time. Meanwhile,
stop back to this page occasionally to see what else we’ve uncovered.
We
also
welcome any submissions of historical items; news clippings, other
documents,
and especially photographs about the department and its relationship to
the
community. As we receive them, and as the site designer has the time,
we'll try to incorporate them.
Special
thanks
are due to
the people of the Bower Hill Volunteer Fire Department and from the
community
who contributed, often completely unwittingly, to this history. Among
these are
many who are no longer with us, and it is to them that this history is
dedicated. Chief among these are Karl
Oelschlager, Art Fishburn, Pete and Charlie Kuna,
Sherman “Doe”
and
Roscoe “Rocky” Padgelek, Eugene Levi, Sr. and Richard Braun of the
department, and Agnes
Robinson, teacher at the
former Henry Roberts Elementary School and a lifelong resident of
southern
Scott Township, who told many great stories about the history of
the community during the many long mornings while we were waiting for
the bus to
Pittsburgh in 1976 - 1980. Among the living are
just about every current life member of the department, but
particularly Bob Berdnik and Ceil
Kitchen who gave
access to the old records.
And extra special thanks to each and every man and woman, boy and girl who has ever served in the Bower Hill Volunteer Fire Department, however long or short that service was. You made this department what it is today, and we’re proud to continue your work. This is your story, and we can never afford to forget it.
| Notes Credits | 1924 1925 | 1925 1941 | 1941 1945 | 1945 1957 | 1957 1967 | 1967 1973 | 1973 1974 | 1974 1982 | 1982 1992 | 1992 1999 | 1999 2006 | 2006 Today |
