Engine Co. 7 - SFD - Scranton Pa

07/03/2025

B-Shift crew

Newswatch 16's Jack Culkin spoke with Scranton firefighters who helped deliver a bundle of joy.

07/03/2025

We had the pleasure to host Col. Richard Rusnok during his visit back home a few years back. The Engine 7 crews wish him all the best.

05/21/2025

We would like to wish Private Chuck Bartlebaugh
(Engine Co. 7 B-Shift) a very happy, healthy and long retirement.
Sworn in on August 8, 2001 he was assigned to the B-Shift where he spent his entire career.
Chuck served on the Local 60 executive board for a time and was regarded as a valuable resource for information.
A former EOD Tech in the US Air Force, he joined the SFD and applied the same tenacious approach to the job.
Whether working hard on the fire ground or sharing his knowledge to younger firefighters during coffee, Chuck could always be counted on when it mattered.

03/16/2025

02/21/2025

Taking a moment today to remember a friend of Local #60 and the Scranton Fire Department.
Mark Boock passed away on this day 2/21/2009. He was photographing a second alarm fire in south side when he suffered a heart attack.
While not a firefighter by profession, Mark was the department historian who would also video and photograph fires as well as special events from the mid 1980s to his last in 2009.
Starting in the mid 1980s, he amassed a comprehensive collection comprising of badges, parade ribbons, helmets, documents, photos which chronical our history from the earliest days.
He even wrote two books and was featured on WNEP and Scranton Times articles.

Mark also was the contact to order our badges, with each new hire or promotion the individual firefighter would visit and be given a personal tour of his home museum.

Mark was made an honorary member of our union on 11/4/1996 and was recognized for his efforts through the years at the departments 100th anniversary dinner in 2001.

Mark and Joan Loretti, wife of Capt. Loretti, formed a committee to raise money from the community to purchase our first thermal imaging camera in 2000.

His collection is cared for today by his family so anytime you see the tag { Courtesy of the Mark Boock Collection } you will know where the historical information is sourced.

02/10/2025

IThe history of firefighting in Scranton dates back to the formation of the city in 1866. Our profession is dangerous, scores of firefighters have been injured carrying out their duties and 37 have lost their lives as a result.
In an effort to remember the Fallen Firefighters of the Scranton Fire Department.

Firefighter William M. Durkin 2/7/1959

Firefighter Durkin a 37 yr veteran of the SFD was assigned to Hose. Co. 8 On December 29, 1958 he responded to a Box Alarm for a grass fire in the 1100 block of Sixth Ave. While returning to the station he became ill and the apparatus had to pull over and stop. The Fire Department Ambulance transported him to the State Hospital where he was treated for 40 days but succumbed to the illness.

02/06/2025

IThe history of firefighting in Scranton dates back to the formation of the city in 1866. Our profession is dangerous, scores of firefighters have been injured carrying out their duties and 37 have lost their lives as a result.
n an effort to remember the Fallen Firefighters of the Scranton Fire Department.

Lieutenant William H. Jones 2/6/1943

Lieutenant William H. Jones of Hose Co. 9 died February 6, 1943. Lieutenant Jones was working at the station of Hose Co. 9, while performing his daily work routine he began to hemorrhage. A nearby doctor was summoned immediately but Jones died within a few minutes of the hemorrhage.

02/04/2025

01/23/2025

The history of firefighting in Scranton dates back to the formation of the city in 1866. Our profession is dangerous, scores of firefighters have been injured carrying out their duties and 37 have lost their lives as a result.
In an effort to remember the Fallen Firefighters of the Scranton Fire Department.

Pvt. Timothy Murray 1/23/2012

Tim (Mur) was a great fireman and a great friend, he started his career on 11/2/1990 and spent most of his time on C-shift (The Untouchables). He spent much of his time working out of fire headquarters and was always one of those fireman who worked hard and lead by example.
Tim was a trained draftsman and created very detailed and accurate maps of the various parts of the city. They would be copied and passed onto new firefighters to build their map books.
He was diagnosed with a form of skin cancer, he passed from "Occupational Cancer" on 1/23/2012 and since the passing of the Cancer Presumption Bill Tim's case was submitted and subsequently accepted. His was the first LODD case approved under the new Bill's guidelines.

01/23/2025

The history of firefighting in Scranton dates back to the formation of the city in 1866. Our profession is dangerous, scores of firefighters have been injured carrying out their duties and 37 have lost their lives as a result.

In an effort to remember the Fallen Firefighters of the Scranton Fire Department.

Firefighter Robert J. Legg 1/21/1973

Firefighter Robert J. Legg of Engine Co. 1 died on January 21, 1973. On April 14, 1972 he responded to a fire at 709-711 and 713-715 Adams Ave. He was riding on the tailboard of the engine. They were in the process of laying a supply line from a hydrant, as the hose was being deployed from the hosebed a coupling struck Firefighter Legg knocking him to the ground. He died from complications resulting from this injury.