Defender Hose 1 RVCFD

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Defender Hose 1 RVCFD

Defender Hose Co. 1 was established in 1895 for the Rockville Centre Fire Department.

02/11/2026

Last night at our meeting, Captain Bedson swore in Katie Twomey as the Company’s Treasurer. We wish Katie the best of luck! And at the same time we want to thank Suzy Baker for her tireless work during her time as Treasurer!

01/20/2026

This past Saturday the Officers and Members of Defender’s gathered to have their Ex-Captain’s Dinner.

This dinner honored their most recent Ex-Captain Andrew Krahm whose term ended last April.

We also recognized our two newest Honorary Chiefs as well. Tom Nofi, and Charley Krahm who passed away shortly after receiving his new title.

The Company would like to thank Tom, Charley and Andrew for their dedicated service. And they’d also like to thank all those who came to the dinner, supported and had a wonderful time!!

09/10/2025

Last night at our company meeting, we celebrated two of our Honorary Chiefs who joined on that very date exactly 60 years before. We want to congratulate Jon Malkin and Tony Walsh for their dedicated years of service!!

08/20/2025

Last night our newest member Santiago Reyes was sworn in as the newest member of the Rockville Centre Fire Department. Last week Captain Bedson swore him in as our newest Company member. We welcome Santiago to the Defender Family and know he’ll do a great job!

08/16/2025

Yesterday, the Officers and Members of Defender’s and Floodlight along with Rockville Centre PD participated in the Hero’s Day at the Rockville Centre Public Library!! This is a day we all look forward to every year getting to spend time with our younger residents and get them to sign up!

08/04/2025

Yesterday the Members of Defenders along with the other companies of the RVCFD went to Citi Field to see the Mets play the Giants. Before the game started the RVCFD Color Guard presented the colors before the National Anthem. Our own Honorary Chief Schwarting and Ex-Captain Krahm were part of the group on the field before the game! It was an aMazin day seeing the Mets win and get to spend time with our friends from the rest of the Department!

05/27/2025

Yesterday the Officers and Members of Defenders participated in the Annual Department Inspection and Village Memorial Day Parade under the command of Captain Bedson.

We also want to thank all the members of the US Armed Services who made the ultimate sacrifice for their Country.

04/23/2025

As of tonight, this is Defender’s new slate of Officers for 2025/2026 officially took their positions.

Captain- Mark Bedson
1st Lieutenant- Tom McDonagh
2nd Lieutenant- Chris Genovese

We wish them luck this next year as they lead Defenders into the future!

We’d also like to thank our newest Ex-Captain Andrew Krahm. He served the company unwaveringly and with complete dedication for eight years starting as Secretary and then moving-up through the ranks over the next seven years. While he isn’t the first Ex-Captain Krahm of Hose 1 we are happy to welcome him to the “Blue Dot Club”!!

04/14/2025

Last night the members of Defenders attended the Rockville Centre Fire Department’s second annual Margaritaville Evening. This year the honoree for the evening was our very own Honorary Chief Bruce Schwarting who also serves as the Department AND Company Secretary as well as our Board of Instruction Delegate! Chief Schwarting was surrounded by family and friends and he certainly was NOT any Nobody from Nowhere as he was honored! Congratulations Chief Schwarting and thank you for EVERYTHING that you do for your Company, Department and Village!

03/25/2025

Here are some Defender highlights from the RVC St. Patrick’s Day Parade! It was a beautiful day to march with the rest of the Department and friends in the Village and fire service!

11/04/2024

On Sunday October 20th, members of Hose 1 and the Rockville Centre Fire Department gathered at Memorial Park to honor and remember those members who passed away in the last year. The Defender Family remembered four of our own members, while Reliance honored two of their members and Alerts commemorated one of their members. The four members we remembered were

Honorary Chief Joe Lagudi
Honorary Chief Carl Boegel Jr.
Honorary Chief Charley Krahm
Ex-Captain Tom O’Boyle

Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to our Defender Families as they continue to mourn their loved ones. We also extend our condolences to the Papalia, Lister and Reliance Families as well as the Bernard Family with Alerts.

They all may be gone, but they will never be forgotten.

08/02/2024

Early this morning 445 got called to Long Beach to standby while they operated at an Sig 10. While enroute, 445 got redirected to the scene and went to work. The crew under the command of Captain Krahm operated on several hose lines and conducted some overhaul operations.

Photo credits and Hon. Chief Tom Nofi.

Address

39 S. Centre Avenue
Rockville Centre, NY
11570

Telephone

+15166789274

Website

http://www.defenderhoseco1.org/

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