KFD's Annual Open House was a tremendous success, with a large, steady crowd of people taking advantage of fire truck rides, bouncy castles, a smoke simulation trailer, gear and equipment demonstrations, and, of course, the setting on fire of a wooden structure and its extinguishment by fire department personnel. The three-hour event also presented valuable fire safety souvenirs and information, and ... (Full Story & Photos)

KFD was out in full force all this week during Fire Prevention Week. We visited just about every school and day care center in our fire district. KFD apparatus and personnel were out at Discovery School, Little Feet Day Care, Country Children's Center, Katonah Village Kids, and Katonah Elementary School. Firefighters handed out cool souvenirs and gave vital safety information to the kids, including ... (Full Story & Photos)

Monday night's weekly training focused on hose line advancement--getting a pre-connected hose line into a structure and hitting the fire. Crews practiced dragging a charged inch-and-three-quarter hose line into the firehouse and around a course delineated by cones. After advancing approximately 150 feet, the crews then trained the nozzle of the hose at a simulated fire. Upon arriving at a fire, it's ... (Full Story & Photos)

Katonah Fire Department was dispatched around 7 p.m. Thursday morning to a reported brush fire on the Route 117 Bypass. Despite the rainy weather, a median strip inside the parking lot of the shopping center on the Bypass had indeed caught fire. Engine 117 responded and the crew used a lightweight hose line to thoroughly soak down the area. The incident was cleared after about 40 minutes and units ... (Full Story & Photos)

The following is from the Katonah Fire Department Centennial Committee, which dedicated the Katonah Fire Department 100th Anniversary Yearbook to Chief James Fayette Lawrence:

"60 years ago, on October 6, 1959, at 3:50 p.m., Katonah Fire Department was dispatched to a report of a grass fire on Mount Holly Road. Assistant Chief James Fayette Lawrence, along with 12 other members of the department, ... (Full Story & Photos)