September 21, 2023
The Port Chester Fire Department’s first engine was purchased when the Clinton Engine Company was founded in 1823. It was a condemned piece of equipment deemed unusable by the department in New York City, which local firefighters got 40 years of use out of.
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Angelo Sposta describes himself as a “firehouse kid”—one of many of his generation in the Port Chester community who spent their childhoods hanging out at one of the seven Port Chester Fire Department companies.
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