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George Calvin Hennessey Jr.

Camden Fire Department, 30+ Years

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In Recognition

Camden Fire Department — Fire Watch Magazine, Spring 1977

Members listed below have anniversary dates which fall during the first quarter.

Camden Fire Department Recognition

Anniversary dates from Fire Watch Magazine, Spring 1977

35 Years of Service

35 Years of Service — Camden Fire Department Recognition
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Deputy Chief	Anthony C. Saponare

30 Years of Service

30 Years of Service — Camden Fire Department Recognition
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Battalion Chief	Robert E. Dukes
Inspector	George C. Hennessy
Deputy Chief	Daniel F. Jiannetto
Deputy Chief	Theodore L. Primas

29 Years of Service

29 Years of Service — Camden Fire Department Recognition
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Firefighter	Eugene F. Alston
Battalion Chief	Biaggio P. Ardire
Firefighter	William R. Harring
Firefighter	William E. Hinch

28 Years of Service

28 Years of Service — Camden Fire Department Recognition
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Captain	Herbert J. Schott

26 Years of Service

26 Years of Service — Camden Fire Department Recognition
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Firefighter #5	Howard G. Brickner
Firefighter #186	Harvey J. Fisher
Captain	James W. Smith
Firefighter #183	Andrew H. Foreman
Firefighter #120	William J. Stibi
Firefighter #34	Henry S. Keubler
Firefighter #29	William M. Stone
Firefighter #50	Joseph J. Lesniewski
Captain	William G. Winstanley
Firefighter #70	Phillip MacDonald
Firefighter #62	Adolph S. Zubrzycki
Firefighter #26	Joseph J. McTaggart
Battalion Chief	John J. Mogck
Captain	John E. Moore
Captain	Robert P. Olesiewicz
Captain	Anthony T. Orme
Firefighter #46	Ralph H. Palmer
Battalion Chief	Charles A. Bates

21 Years of Service

21 Years of Service — Camden Fire Department Recognition
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Battalion Chief	John J. Giuliano
Inspector #76	Alfred D. Nigro
Firefighter #100	Leon Puszczykowski
Firefighter #73	John L. Sterner
Firefighter #143	Francis P. Stibi
Firefighter #95	Carl R. Szalkowski

St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral School Fire

Camden Courier-Post — June 9, 1981

Camden Courier-Post, June 9, 1981 — St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral School fire — Named: Biaggio P. Ardire, George Hennessey, Charles C. Smerin, Msgr. Charles Barth, St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral School, Forest Hill Elementary School, Parkside, East Camden, North 29th Street, and Westfield Avenue.

Camden Courier-Post, June 9, 1981 — fire continued — Named: Biaggio P. Ardire, George Hennessey, Charles C. Smerin, Msgr. Charles Barth, St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral School, Forest Hill Elementary School, Parkside, East Camden, North 29th Street, and Westfield Avenue.

Monkey Is Trapped by Banana

Camden Courier-Post — August 20, 1954

Acting Captain James Jones and Firemen George Hennessy and Wesley Faust escorting monkey to the ground, August 1954 — THE NICE THING ABOUT THE JUNGLE is that there are no firemen in it. This was the opinion of the monkey (in the cage) who is being escorted to the ground by (left to right) acting Capt. James Jones and Firemen George Hennessy and Wesley Faust. The monkey, who had been hiding out for five days on the rooftop at 333 Mickle st., was captured in an SPCA wire and wool trap today.

Monkey Is Trapped by Banana

By Warner Olivier

Human beings today won another round in their perpetual struggle to prove they are smarter than other primates.

A fire truck with an aerial ladder, three sweating firemen, two perspiring Courier-Post photographers and an SPCA task force were required to bring to earth (in a cage) a monkey who, up to this morning, had been making monkeys of all the well-meaning folk who had been trying to trap him on the rooftop of 333 Mickle st., where he had gone five days ago for whatever purpose monkeys do go on rooftops on Mickle st.

Near Whitman House

The whole performance would have tickled Walt Whitman across the street from whose house it all happened. The good grey monkey — for that’s the color he is — was not noticeably amused. He had a rather thoughtful look.

It was hunger that finally proved the hefty young simian’s undoing. The SPCA had rigged a wool and wire trap, baited with bananas, on the rooftop Wednesday. This didn’t seem very promising because the monkey merely reached in and took a banana without springing the trap. John Adams, of the SPCA staff, then made some improvements in the trap and this morning it worked. The monkey got the banana but the trap got him.

Since children of the neighborhood had been maintaining a constant vigil, some of them even climbing to the roof of the house, the SPCA was promptly notified and the rescue battalions began to converge.

No. 1 Truck breezed down to Mickle st. So did Courier-Post photographers. The heavy aerial ladder was run up to the roof of 333. Up the ladder went acting Capt. James Jones and Firemen Wesley Faust and George Hennessy to join forces with Adams, who was already there. On the sidewalk stood Mrs. Agnes Stack, supervisor of the SPCA Shelter. In the street also stood probably a hundred spectators, of all ages. The photographers deployed themselves. One lunged boldly up the ladder. The other, just as bold, but frustrated, mounted the truck to get a picture of the monkey on the way down the ladder.

Owner Unknown

A safety rope was tied around the big cage in which the monkey cursed in a restrained fashion and occasionally tried to sock a fireman. Fireman Faust, carrying the lower end, backed down the ladder. Fireman Hennessy came down face first, carrying the upper end of the case. Capt. Jones held the safety rope from the roof.

Cameras snapped.

Once on the street, the monkey looked at the little throng of human beings as if they were something in a cage. Then he was whirled away to the Shelter in the SPCA cage.

The owner of the monkey has not come forward to claim him. The two are reported to have parted on bad terms.

HE SOLD HIS FREEDOM for a banana. The monkey who cavorted for five days on the rooftop of 333 Mickle Street, having been snared in an SPCA trap baited with bananas, is being examined in his cage by acting Captain James Jones (right) and Fireman Wesley Faust of Truck No. 1.

Camden Courier-Post, August 20, 1954 — Monkey Is Trapped by Banana — THE NICE THING ABOUT THE JUNGLE is that there are no firemen in it. This was the opinion of the monkey (in the cage) who is being escorted to the ground by (left to right) acting Capt. James Jones and Firemen George Hennessy and Wesley Faust. The monkey, who had been hiding out for five days on the rooftop at 333 Mickle st., was captured in an SPCA wire and wool trap today.

Monkey Is Trapped by Banana

By Warner Olivier

Human beings today won another round in their perpetual struggle to prove they are smarter than other primates.

A fire truck with an aerial ladder, three sweating firemen, two perspiring Courier-Post photographers and an SPCA task force were required to bring to earth (in a cage) a monkey who, up to this morning, had been making monkeys of all the well-meaning folk who had been trying to trap him on the rooftop of 333 Mickle st., where he had gone five days ago for whatever purpose monkeys do go on rooftops on Mickle st.

Near Whitman House

The whole performance would have tickled Walt Whitman across the street from whose house it all happened. The good grey monkey — for that’s the color he is — was not noticeably amused. He had a rather thoughtful look.

It was hunger that finally proved the hefty young simian’s undoing. The SPCA had rigged a wool and wire trap, baited with bananas, on the rooftop Wednesday. This didn’t seem very promising because the monkey merely reached in and took a banana without springing the trap. John Adams, of the SPCA staff, then made some improvements in the trap and this morning it worked. The monkey got the banana but the trap got him.

Since children of the neighborhood had been maintaining a constant vigil, some of them even climbing to the roof of the house, the SPCA was promptly notified and the rescue battalions began to converge.

No. 1 Truck breezed down to Mickle st. So did Courier-Post photographers. The heavy aerial ladder was run up to the roof of 333. Up the ladder went acting Capt. James Jones and Firemen Wesley Faust and George Hennessy to join forces with Adams, who was already there. On the sidewalk stood Mrs. Agnes Stack, supervisor of the SPCA Shelter. In the street also stood probably a hundred spectators, of all ages. The photographers deployed themselves. One lunged boldly up the ladder. The other, just as bold, but frustrated, mounted the truck to get a picture of the monkey on the way down the ladder.

Owner Unknown

A safety rope was tied around the big cage in which the monkey cursed in a restrained fashion and occasionally tried to sock a fireman. Fireman Faust, carrying the lower end, backed down the ladder. Fireman Hennessy came down face first, carrying the upper end of the case. Capt. Jones held the safety rope from the roof.

Cameras snapped.

Once on the street, the monkey looked at the little throng of human beings as if they were something in a cage. Then he was whirled away to the Shelter in the SPCA cage.

The owner of the monkey has not come forward to claim him. The two are reported to have parted on bad terms.

HE SOLD HIS FREEDOM for a banana. The monkey who cavorted for five days on the rooftop of 333 Mickle Street, having been snared in an SPCA trap baited with bananas, is being examined in his cage by acting Captain James Jones (right) and Fireman Wesley Faust of Truck No. 1.

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