Madison Hose Co. 1 Launches New Website, Hopes Folks Check It Out

MADISON, CT — Imagine this: It's the 5th of July 1907 in Madison, a town without established fire protection. A tenement downtown burns to the ground.

The way the town had been fighting fires was with the help of Guilford and, often, "more primitive methods of fighting fires such as a bucket brigade." Called a "common, yet usually ineffective, manner of fighting fires."

"Citizens would form a human chain from a pond, lake, the sound or another readily available source of water to the scene of the fire," the history of Madison Hose Company 1, reads. "Full and empty buckets would be passed back and forth by hand until the fire was extinguished. While valiant in effort, bucket brigades usually resulted in a total loss for the affected building or buildings."

To learn what happens next, find a rich, detailed history of the 115-year-old all-volunteer fire company on its newly launched website.

Madison Hose Co. 1# announced its new website on Facebook, and hopes folks will "take some time to visit and learn more about our organization."