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CANAAN, NY - It took only twelve minutes to bring down the old Red Rock firehouse that stood for forty-six years at the corner of County Route 24 and Cemetery Road in Canaan. Robin Howes, of Howes Trucking, operated the excavator that brought down the firehouse. He was assisted by George Hoover IV Excavating and MacFarlane Contracting who provided additional dump trucks to haul the material away. It took eleven and one half loads.

Before the station was demolished is served as a training location for many drills and fire schools.

The building was purchased by the fire company from a contractor that worked on the construction of the Berkshire Spur section of the NYS Thruway. It had previously stood on the property of the Canaan Conservation Club on Frisbee Street in Canaan.

The fire companies only surviving charter member, Harold "Red" Fischer who joined the company when it started in 1941, watched the demolition. He stated, "It took us a heck of alot longer to build it!"

The new station which sits behind the location of the old one is approximately 10,000 square feet, about six times the size of the old station.

The new sign on the firehouse was made from a cedar tree that was cut down where the new station now stands.

Volunteers moved into the new firehouse on January 1, 2008.

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