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Photo via Facebook/Gerritsen Beach Fire Department. [https://www.facebook.com/gerrittsenbeachfiredepartment/photos]The Gerritsen Beach Volunteer Fire Department, known as the “Vollies,” [/?s=gerrittsen+fire]will receive a portion of a $500,000 grant given to seven volunteer fire departments throughout the city by the Department of Homeland Security’
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Firefighters emerging from Marine Park after Monday’s brush fire. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Scores of firefighters spent almost two hours battling a raging brush fire in the southern edge of Marine Park’s salt marsh Monday night. Lieutenant Dave Ostrowski, a member of the Gerritsen Beach Volunteer Fire
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The Gerrittsen Beach Fire Department (Source: GBFD.net)The Gerrittsen Beach Fire Department [http://gbfd.net/], the volunteer firefighting base of Gerritsen Beach where many locals took refuge after Superstorm Sandy, is slated to get a $2.4 million overhaul to protect it from future extreme weather events. The funds
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HEART 9/11, a disaster response organization dedicated to facilitating physical and emotional recovery after traumatic events, is offering an eight-week Resilience Boot Camp course for residents of Gerritsen Beach and the surrounding area who were impacted by Hurricane Sandy. The program, which is free of charge, will teach mindfulness
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Source: gbfd.netIn 1922, after a fire destroyed a house in Gerritsen Beach, residents came together to form the Gerrittsen Beach Fire Department [http://gbfd.net/], the only all-volunteer fire department in Brooklyn. The GBFD is celebrating its 90th anniversary with a journal compiling photos and stories of the “Vollies”