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1950s

From left:  Chief Harry "Dutch" Rapp, John Combine, John Herbick, Clarence Hood, Charles Kirsh, Ralph Burtt, John Getway, Raymond Adams, Joe Nerone, Steve Ellis, Ralph Shaffer, Unknown, Fred Stahl, Unknown, Dave Astey.  Want to enlarge this photo?  Click on the fireman you'd like to see in more detail - or Click below to see an enlargement of the firemen on the left, in the center, or on the right.

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Chief Dutch Rapp and Sharpsville Firemen pose with the 1954 GMC Fire truck built at Sharpsville Steel Fabricating Co.

From left:  Unknown, Raymond Adams, John Getway, Fred Smith, James Cattron, James Sansone, Mike Shemanick, Unknown, Thomas Weldon and John Combine. Click on the fireman you'd like to see in more detail - or Click below to see an enlargement of the firemen on the left or on the right.

Princess with her driver, Dutch Rapp in the 1939 Ahrens Fox Firetruck Dutch poses with Princess, the Sharpsville Fire Department's Mascot, 1954.

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Dutch and Bill Weldon at a convention in Youngsville, 1951