Neighbors Growing Together | Feb 8, 2012

History of the start of the Hope Volunteer Fire Department

By William P. Pearse Sr. | Dec 08, 2009

The Hope Volunteer Fire Department was started in July 1951 after Everett Hobb's barn burned.

My father, Ralph, my brother John and I were getting in hay when Dad looked up in the sky and saw the smoke, and said that Everett Hobbs' place was on fire. ...

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