by Barrett Seaman – John Cullen’s father was the first in his family to join Dobbs Ferry’s Ogden Engine Company and the first to join at age 18. That was in 1921, not long after the first motorized fire truck replaced the old horse-drawn wagons. That put a premium on someone who knew how to drive a truck, which young Cullen knew how to do, prompting the company to lower the minimum membership age from 21 in order to gain […]
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