OSWEGO â Mayor Billy Barlow held a dress inspection of the Oswego Fire Department in honor of the 145th anniversary of the department being incorporated as a paid fire department on May 20, 1876.
Mayor Barlow and Fire Chief Randy Griffin offered remarks to the department before holding the dress inspection and posing for department photos. In 1828, Oswego was incorporated as a village and Henry Eagle, Francis Rood, Thomas Ambler, and William I. Kniffen were appointed fire wardens.
In 1842, an act by the state legislature providing for the incorporation of a fire department in Oswego was passed. The first steam engine for the department was purchased in 1867 and finally, in 1876 the old volunteer department was superseded by a paid department, and the present system was put in operation.
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