Welcome to Groton Long Point Volunteer Fire Company Inc.

Groton Long Point Volunteer Fire Department was fround in 1951. Since then GLPVFD has been serving the GLP Commuinty and its neighboring communities.

Our purpose: "the preservation of lives and property, the extinguishment of fires, the provision of emergency medical services and social assembly"

History of the Company

Proir to 1951, fire protection for Groton Long Point was provided by the Noank Fire Department under an agreement whereby Noank was paid a retainer fee of $3,000 per year, plus $50 per hour when called to service. A 1922 Model T truck that held some firefighting equipment was kept on the Point and used to hold a fire until Noank arrived. Longtime member Bob Dieckerhoff, in an interview for the fire department's newsletter, recollected that the coolant in the vehicle needed to be drained each winter. One winter, the vehicle was used to respond to a fire in the Clubhouse Point, but no coolant had been added to it. Dieckerhoff stated that when they arrived at the scene, the Model T's Moter was redder then the fire they were responding to!

The Company is Formed:

In 1950, the fee was increased to $5,000 and the hourly charge to $75. This was unacceptable to many in the point, so the Association membership voted to appropriate $40,000 to provide fire protection ---$20,000 for a pumper and the rest for a station. A formal meeting took place on May 20, 1951, "for the purpose of forming a volunteer fire company", and a vote to actually incorporate was passed on June 24, 1951. The first alarm was for a steak burning in a broiler on West Shore Avenue.