Harold Dinsmore of Farragut was honored for 60 years of service as a firefighter with Farragut Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department first in a February rib feed, then in an open house event held by the department on March 10.
According to Dinsmore, he moved to Farragut in 1958, shortly after getting out of the service, and joined a veterans club there. One of the veterans he was friends with kept pushing him to join the fire department, and by 1959, he was persuaded, and joined the Farragut Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department. It was a decision he’s never regretted, and 60 years later, he’s still going strong.
“I’m not as active on rescue as I used to be,” Dinsmore admitted, “and on most calls now I either drive a tanker truck or man a fill station filling the tanks.”
Dinsmore talked about some of the major changes he had seen over the years.