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John P. Kraemer is credited with being the founding father of the Sussex Fire Department. Kraemer saw the need for a fire department, and he helped form a club that was for civic betterment. It took a disastrous fire to truly bring the community together. The disaster was the January 30, 1922, burning of the 9 year old four room school.
The Sussex Fire Company was organized in May 1922. It was organized as the Lisbon Fire Company, as Sussex was not incorporated as a village at that time. Considerable importance was given to the formation of the Company due to the burning of the school. It was felt that if the community had an organized fire department that the school building might have been saved. |
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(l-r) Ray Semrow, Roy Evert, Chief Robert Stier
and Joe Weber
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(l-r) Pepper Steffen and Captain Jim Darrow |
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Front Row (l-r): Asst.Chief Ray Schroeder,
Chief Robert Stier, Asst. Chief Roy Evert.
Standing (l-r): Norm "Pepper" Steffen, Arne Peterson, Joe Mudlitz, Paul Cain Sr., Francis "Muppy" Haasch and George Semrow
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Practice Burn
(Petro Pantry back lot)
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Seated (l-r): Bill Steuve, George Podolske and
Bill Smith
Back row (l-r): Claude "Butch" Caberbac and Carl Marx
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(l-r): Ray Schroeder, Rudy Kerstein, Frank Tetzlaff,
Roy Evert, Paul Tetzlaff, Chester Lingelbach and John P. Kraemer.
All received their "20th" year watches.
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April 26, 1966 - Old General Store downtown
Sussex saved to ground and well. This is now where the Piggly Wiggly sits today.
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Lavern "Mickey" Cleary
42 years of Service and 60th Birthday. |
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