Westport Fire Department promote 13

Westport Fire Department Promotes Thirteen

#Westport CT-- Westport Fire Chief Robert Yost said that due to a number of retirements within the fire department in Westport that thirteen firefighters have been promoted within their ranks.  In a ceremony Friday at the Town Hall Auditorium at  110 Myrtle Avenue, Westport. First Selectman Jim Marpe  swore in the firefighters in front family, friends and colleague.  Family members pinned the badges on those promoted.  A reception at the South Norwalk Boat Club followed.   Promoted were: Fire Marshal-Nathaniel Gibbons Assistant Chief- Matthew Cohen, Jeffrey Gootman, Brett Kirby Fire Inspector- Richard Calabria Lieutenant- Todd Denke, Joseph Arnson, Nicholas Marsan, Brendan McHugh, Kevin Dumas, Michael Grasso, Daniel Mascolo and Tobias Ostapchuk  

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Boys And Girls Village At St. James Festival

The Boys & Girls Village Work to Learn program, which provides employment experiences, life skills training and asset building to 16-20 year old at-risk youth, will be selling items they created (pictured below) and marketing their businesses Do Me A Favor and Design IQ & Print at the Stratford Main Street Festival tomorrow, 10:00am-5:00pm. The festival will be at the St. James Church area of Main Street. Please come out to support them! We hope to see you there!   Visit their websites at : www.domeafavor.net    or   www.designiqandprint.net Or on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/Do- Me-A-Favor-223380988000021/ https://www.facebook.com/ Design-IQ-Print- 622600784547954/

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Bridgeport, CT- Mayor Joe Ganim, Senator Richard Blumenthal and Bridgeport Fire Chief Richard Thode announced today that the Fire Department has been awarded two separate Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants totaling $219, 091. The first award was in the amount of $152,176 to be used for an Operation and Safety training program for the cities firefighters. The second grant was in the amount of $66,915 to support the purchase of a Cascade System used for filling the firefighter’s air tanks, replacing the current, dated, 34 year old system currently used by the department.   “Being awarded these two grants by FEMA is enormously beneficial to not only our Fire Department but to the citizens of Bridgeport,” said Mayor Ganim.…

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