By Terry Dobson Staff Reporter Charlie Richards spent over 30 years as a member of the Sackville Fire Department.
Next week is Fire Prevention Week.
But it did last that long, and now five years after his retirement from the service, Richards admits he still misses the excitement and camaraderie that went with fighting fires. Richards moved to Sackville in 1961 and only four years later joined the department, as all rookies do, at the bottom of the chain of command. I know some of the guys that were in here too. It wasn't the same department in 1965, that's for sure, insisted Richards. In 1965 there wasn't much to becoming a fire fighter, compared to nowadays.