HOOK & LADDER COMPANY 1
Hook & Ladder Company #1 was an original Company formed within the Department when the ‘Central Islip Hook & Ladder & Chemical Engine Company #1’ was disbanded and reorganized as the ‘Central Islip Fire Department’ on May 6, 1929. It is unknown the number of members assigned to the Hook & Ladder Company #1 at that time. Membership now calls for a total of twenty-five, not including Senior Active Members with 20 or more years of service.
Hook & Ladder Company #1 was originally assigned to the Truck House on East Suffolk Avenue. With the construction of the new Fire House in 1937, this Company was moved to this location, and finally to Station #2 on Wheeler Road when this building was completed in 1960.
The first ‘Foreman’ of the Company was Lawrence Martinsen, with Milo Pearsall serving as Assistant Foreman. It is unclear who served as additional ‘Foremen’ for the first few years of the Company’s existence. The title of Foreman and Assistant Foreman was changed to that of Captain and Lieutenants for all Companies as of the December 4, 1933 Department Meeting.
Past Apparatus for the Hook & Ladder Co. #1
Grabowsky Ladder Truck – unknown year of manufacture – purchased from the Huntington F.D. in 1924
Reo Ladder Truck from Islip State Hospital (1930’s – 1936)
1936 Reo Ladder Truck
1960 Maxim 75’ Aerial
1978 Pierce with 85’ L.T.I. Aerial
2000 Pierce Dash
2020 Rosenbauer Tower Ladder
Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 Past Chiefs:
Bernard Simms
Joseph Miller
Michael Watral
George Runz
Kenneth O. Jackson
Neil Finnin
Thomas Doyle
Charles Doyle
Kevin J. McAteer Jr.
Fifty Year Members & Past Chiefs:
George Runz
Neil Finnin
Honorary Chiefs:
Richard Staley - 50 Years
Henry Hocker - 50 Years
William Sykora, K.I.A. World War Two
Past Captain’s Hook and Ladder Co. #1
1933 – 1934
1935 – 1936
1937
1938 – 1939
1940 – 1941
1942
1943
1944
1945 – 1946
1947 – 1948
1949 – 1950
1951 – 1952
1953 – 1954
1955 – 1956
1957 – 1958
1959
1960 – 1961
1962 – 1963
1964 – 1965
1966
1967 – 1968
1969 – 1970
1971 – 1972
1973 – 1974
1975 – 1976
1977 – 2/78
4/78 – 7/78
7/78 - 4/80
4/80 - 7/80
7/80 - 4/81
1981 – 1982
1983 – 1986
1986 – 1988
1988 – 1990
1990 – 1992
1992 – 1994
1994 – 1996
1996 – 1997
1997 – 1998
1998 – 1999
1999 – 2003
2003 – 2005
2005 – 2007
2007 – 2009
2009 – 2011
2011 – 2013
2013 - 2015
2015 - 2017
2017 - 2020
2020 - 2022
Kenneth Rhoades
Raymond B. Hubbs
Max Johnson
Henry Beinlich
Harold DuJat
Frank O’Kane
George Lindgren
Albert Taylor
Charles Conklin
Michael Watral
George Runz
Raymond Meigel
Henry Hocker
John V. McDermott
Richard Behnke
Arnold Acker
Charles Hocker
Richard Johnson, Sr.
Kenneth O. Jackson
Richard Johnson, Sr.
Chris King
Neil Finnin
Richard Stahley
Thomas Doyle
Daniel Cellamare
Richard Donnelly
William Raynor
Thomas Doyle
Joseph Bilboa
Thomas Doyle
Kevin Brennan
Brian T. O’Connor
John Kochner
Charles Doyle
Patrick Sweeney
Paul Conk
Charles Doyle
Brian T. O’Connor
Charles Doyle
Michael McCarthy
Kevin McAteer
Gary Zdenek
Alexander Acevedo
Arthur Ford
Thomas Kirby
Mike Zelma
Arthur Ford
Gustabo Figueroa
Mike Zelma
James Murphy