As the Greenwood Volunteer Fire Company prepares to celebrate 100 years since its founding, its president, Robert Carlow, is working to make it a special century commemoration.
Though company volunteers no longer fight fires, the station still houses apparatus and serves as a museum. Warwick’s volunteer fire history, which includes milestones such as the first female fire chief in the country- Nancy Allen Holst in Cowesett- and memorabilia such as old equipment from Warwick’s villages, is chronicled by the nonprofit at their location at 45 Kernick Street.
Carlow has a strong family history with the station. His father was a former chief when volunteer fire companies were still in operation, serving as Apponaug Volunteer Fire Co.’s final chief.
“I remember coming here as a kid- most of the people here, it’s all family,” Carlow said.