The Cold Spring Fire Company No. 1 is located in the Village of Cold Spring, Putnam County New York. We proudly protect 3500 people living in an area of 5 square miles. We operate out of a headquarters located at 154 Main Street that protects a primarily residential area. Our department is a public department whose members are on a volunteer status. We have an ISO rating of 5.
The Cold Spring Fire Company has a total of 125 men and woman and are led by Chief Matt Steltz and President Michael Bowman. We respond on approximately 150 calls per year providing fire protection to the residents of the Villages of Cold Spring, Nelsonville and the Philipstown/Cold Spring Fire District. For information on joining, call the Firehouse at 845-265-9241 or email at: coldspringfd@gmail.com
Water pouring from a manhole cover on Main Street. It was an exhausting non-stop weekend for the Cold Spring Fire Company. Beginning around 8 am on Sunday August, 28 and continuing into Tuesday morning, firefighters from CSFC responded to dozens of calls for flooding conditions, wires down, fallen trees, water rescues, propane leaks and other...
Tuesday night August 23, Cold Spring firefighters conducted bailout training and recertification at the North Highlands firehouse on Fishkill Rd. A state mandate, the bailout system is a mandatory requirement of all volunteer interior firefighters. *Interested in volunteering? Fill out an application, stop by on one of our drill nights (every Tuesday @ 7:30pm) or...
Tuesday night August 16, Cold Spring firefighters conducted interior firefighter training, focusing on sizeup, initial attack, laying in and search. Simultaneously, driver training and re certification was also conducted. The evolutions involved firefighters “arriving on scene”, stretching hose lines, conducting an interior search and familiarizing themselves with rescue techniques. The interior drill was conducted in...
On Tuesday August 9th, Cold Spring Firefighters held an elevator rescue class on the MTA southbound platform. Believe it or not, our small town has a fair share of elevators and on occasion (twice in the last month actually) people become entrapped in them due to mechanical failure or power outages. The CSFC would like...
