On Nov. 23, 2015 members of Haddam Volunteer Fire Company participated in a SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus) exercise. All interior firefighters are required to take quarterly SCBA refreshers to keep their interior firefighting status. During the drill, firefighters crawled down a dark hall, over an obstacle that resembled floor joists in a ceiling, and searched a room. They concluded the drill with a low-profile exercise. Firefighters and members of Haddam Fire’s Junior Division then cleaned SCBA and refilled air tanks. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

East Haddam Fire Department hosted a tanker shuttle drill on July 21, 2015. This drill included support from the surrounding mutual aid towns of Haddam, East Hampton, Haddam Neck and Lyme, which committed a total of five engines, four tankers and one ladder truck. Tankers shuttled water from the fill site on the Moodus Reservoir causeway to four drop tanks at the East Haddam Town Beach, where the water was pumped to the ladder pipe, deck gun and hand lines. In the event of a structure fire in a rural town where hydrants are scarce, firefighters would use a similar process to deliver water to the structure fire. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

East Haddam Fire Department hosted a tanker shuttle drill on July 21, 2015. This drill included support from the surrounding mutual aid towns of Haddam, East Hampton, Haddam Neck and Lyme, which committed a total of five engines, four tankers and one ladder truck. Tankers shuttled water from the fill site on the Moodus Reservoir causeway to four drop tanks at the East Haddam Town Beach, where the water was pumped to the ladder pipe, deck gun and hand lines. In the event of a structure fire in a rural town where hydrants are scarce, firefighters would use a similar process to deliver water to the structure fire. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

East Haddam Fire Department hosted a tanker shuttle drill on July 21, 2015. This drill included support from the surrounding mutual aid towns of Haddam, East Hampton, Haddam Neck and Lyme, which committed a total of five engines, four tankers and one ladder truck. Tankers shuttled water from the fill site on the Moodus Reservoir causeway to four drop tanks at the East Haddam Town Beach, where the water was pumped to the ladder pipe, deck gun and hand lines. In the event of a structure fire in a rural town where hydrants are scarce, firefighters would use a similar process to deliver water to the structure fire. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

East Haddam Fire Department hosted a tanker shuttle drill on July 21, 2015. This drill included support from the surrounding mutual aid towns of Haddam, East Hampton, Haddam Neck and Lyme, which committed a total of five engines, four tankers and one ladder truck. Tankers shuttled water from the fill site on the Moodus Reservoir causeway to four drop tanks at the East Haddam Town Beach, where the water was pumped to the ladder pipe, deck gun and hand lines. In the event of a structure fire in a rural town where hydrants are scarce, firefighters would use a similar process to deliver water to the structure fire. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

East Haddam Fire Department hosted a tanker shuttle drill on July 21, 2015. This drill included support from the surrounding mutual aid towns of Haddam, East Hampton, Haddam Neck and Lyme, which committed a total of five engines, four tankers and one ladder truck. Tankers shuttled water from the fill site on the Moodus Reservoir causeway to four drop tanks at the East Haddam Town Beach, where the water was pumped to the ladder pipe, deck gun and hand lines. In the event of a structure fire in a rural town where hydrants are scarce, firefighters would use a similar process to deliver water to the structure fire. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

During their weekly Monday night drill Aug. 17, 2015 members of Haddam Volunteer Fire Company taught Junior and newer members about the company’s forestry and utility trucks. In the event of a brush fire, firefighters would use a water supply and/or portable backpack fire pumps (“Indian packs”) to suppress the fire. Haddam Fire’s Forestry/Brush Truck 12-13, built in 1972, is a retired U.S. Army M35 2 and a 1/2 ton cargo truck. Also nicknamed “Deuce and a Half," the truck carries a 600-gallon water tank, a 250 gpm pump, a class A foam system, a leaf blower, Stokes basket, chainsaws, rakes, shovels and multiple Indian tanks. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

Members of the Haddam Volunteer Fire Company Junior Division, their advisors and other firefighters “brushed up” on their wildland firefighting skills May 5, 2015 at The University of Connecticut’s Middlesex County Extension Center on Saybrook Road. An approximately one-half acre field was burned during the annual land management controlled burn event. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

East Haddam Fire Department hosted a tanker shuttle drill on July 21, 2015. This drill included support from the surrounding mutual aid towns of Haddam, East Hampton, Haddam Neck and Lyme, which committed a total of five engines, four tankers and one ladder truck. Tankers shuttled water from the fill site on the Moodus Reservoir causeway to four drop tanks at the East Haddam Town Beach, where the water was pumped to the ladder pipe, deck gun and hand lines. In the event of a structure fire in a rural town where hydrants are scarce, firefighters would use a similar process to deliver water to the structure fire. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

East Haddam Fire Department hosted a tanker shuttle drill on July 21, 2015. This drill included support from the surrounding mutual aid towns of Haddam, East Hampton, Haddam Neck and Lyme, which committed a total of five engines, four tankers and one ladder truck. Tankers shuttled water from the fill site on the Moodus Reservoir causeway to four drop tanks at the East Haddam Town Beach, where the water was pumped to the ladder pipe, deck gun and hand lines. In the event of a structure fire in a rural town where hydrants are scarce, firefighters would use a similar process to deliver water to the structure fire. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

East Haddam Fire Department hosted a tanker shuttle drill on July 21, 2015. This drill included support from the surrounding mutual aid towns of Haddam, East Hampton, Haddam Neck and Lyme, which committed a total of five engines, four tankers and one ladder truck. Tankers shuttled water from the fill site on the Moodus Reservoir causeway to four drop tanks at the East Haddam Town Beach, where the water was pumped to the ladder pipe, deck gun and hand lines. In the event of a structure fire in a rural town where hydrants are scarce, firefighters would use a similar process to deliver water to the structure fire. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

During their weekly Monday drill Sept. 21, 2015 members of Haddam Volunteer Fire Company practiced setting up ladders, ladder safety and chimney fire response at the Veteran’s Museum in Higganum (formerly the old fire house) on Candlewood Hill Road. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

East Haddam Fire Department hosted a tanker shuttle drill on July 21, 2015. This drill included support from the surrounding mutual aid towns of Haddam, East Hampton, Haddam Neck and Lyme, which committed a total of five engines, four tankers and one ladder truck. Tankers shuttled water from the fill site on the Moodus Reservoir causeway to four drop tanks at the East Haddam Town Beach, where the water was pumped to the ladder pipe, deck gun and hand lines. In the event of a structure fire in a rural town where hydrants are scarce, firefighters would use a similar process to deliver water to the structure fire. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

East Haddam Fire Department hosted a tanker shuttle drill on July 21, 2015. This drill included support from the surrounding mutual aid towns of Haddam, East Hampton, Haddam Neck and Lyme, which committed a total of five engines, four tankers and one ladder truck. Tankers shuttled water from the fill site on the Moodus Reservoir causeway to four drop tanks at the East Haddam Town Beach, where the water was pumped to the ladder pipe, deck gun and hand lines. In the event of a structure fire in a rural town where hydrants are scarce, firefighters would use a similar process to deliver water to the structure fire. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

East Haddam Fire Department hosted a tanker shuttle drill on July 21, 2015. This drill included support from the surrounding mutual aid towns of Haddam, East Hampton, Haddam Neck and Lyme, which committed a total of five engines, four tankers and one ladder truck. Tankers shuttled water from the fill site on the Moodus Reservoir causeway to four drop tanks at the East Haddam Town Beach, where the water was pumped to the ladder pipe, deck gun and hand lines. In the event of a structure fire in a rural town where hydrants are scarce, firefighters would use a similar process to deliver water to the structure fire. (Photo by Olivia Drake)