Dexter's worst week for the fire department," is how Ernie Robinson describes it. It was cold January in 1975 and the week started on Sunday night with a fire in a storage barn behind Otto's potato house. The flames leapt across Church Street in a howling wind and kept the fire crew busy all night. Monday brought a January thaw and a storm dumped heavy rains. The fire department pumped out cellars all that day and night. On Tuesday at 7:00 pm the Titcomb Block caught fire. The fire department spent until 7:00 am Wednesday putting that fire out but were immediately called back later in the morning when Fossa's Block started to burn. They didn't rest again until Thursday. At one time it was feared the entire block was going to burn, similar to the 1907 fire. This photograph of the Titcomb Block was taken Tuesday night, at the peak of the fire's intensity.

This shows fire chiefs from the recent and distant past: Bert L. Call (left) was fire chief in 1909, and Slim Prescott was chief during the 1960-70 era. Bert was responsible for a major upgrade in the system when he had machinery installeded to locate fires quickly. Before that, when there was a fire at the woolen mills, a bell rang and everyone ran to the mills, looked around for smoke and proceeded from there.

Eagle Hose Company No. 1, the French Company, posed for this photograph on the Pleasant Street School grounds during the late 1800's. Pictured here are, from left to right: (front row) ? Bertrand, Peter Muntain, Edward Mountain, and Zeb Pomroy; (middle row) Harry Dyer, John Ronco, Edward Clukey and Elmer Clukey; (back row) Charles Mountain, Frank Clukey, Charles Clukey, Charles Dulac and Joe Mountain. Most of the men lived in close proximity of the school ground, mostly on Pleasant and Grove Streets.