Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department - Washington County, PA

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Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department - Washington County, PA

The Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department originated in Stockdale, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Situated in the industrial Monongahela River Valley, the town attracted people of many nationalities: German, Polish, English, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian, and Greeks. Among those new residents there was a strong community feeling of responsibility expressed in the formation of a fire department. The closeness of the community was overtly expressed when three double houses owned by the Braznell Coal Mining Company were completely burned on April 30th, 1926, and six families were left homeless. Fighting fires in Stockdale during this period was limited to fighting fires with water supplied by bucket brigade and by an Ajax Chemical fire cart. In fighting the Braznell fire every water source available was used; the cisterns, the swamp adjacent to the railroad tracks, and from the tender of the railroad engines which came from Brownsville eight miles away. Help also came from other fire departments: Charleroi, North Charleroi, California, and the small nearby communities of Roscoe and Allenport. Although there were other fires that occurred previously in Stockdale, it was the Braznell fire that proved to be the spark which caused the citizens to form the fire department.