The Nicasio Volunteer Fire Department
formed in 1946
Christmas greetings from NVFD December 2015.
The History of the Nicasio Volunteer Fire department, full story coming.
The first Nicasio Fire Truck was a surplus World War II Half-Track converted into a fire engine. At the time, most of the roads in the community were dirt, and often muddy. Photo courtesy Nicasio VFD.
The Nicasio Volunteers pictured in the early 1990s following the completion of a Saturday morning drill at Skywalker Ranch. Photo courtesy of Tom Forster.
The Nicasio Volunteer Fire Department, July 19, 2014 following the traditional community wash down of their new fire engine. Photo courtesy of Tom Forster.
A Cal Fire Tanker drops fire retardant on a wildland fire in Nicasio in 1999, off Nicasio Valley Road. Photo courtesy of Maureen Forster.
(l-r) Unknown, Willi La Franchi, unknown, Mike Ingerman, Harold 'Spike' Grady circa 1980 in front of a then new Fire Engine. Chief Grady is accepting the keys. Many years later this engine was donated to the Alleghany, California Volunteer FD. Photo from the Nicasio VFD historical archives.