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But Charlie still found time and energy—not to mention money— to donate to the drive toward a fire company in Castleton.
He gave the department its first piece of equipment, a 200-gallon fire truck, and followed that up with the gift of an auxiliary 1,500-gallon water tank truck. He provided all the wiring for the fire department building and then the labor to install both wiring and plumbing. Gasch was elected the company’s president in 1956 and also held that office when he died two weeks ago.
“1 can’t describe what he did— everything, he did everything," said Effie Settle, an active member of the Castleton Ladies Auxiliary and a co-worker of Gasch’s since the fire department was started. “He volunteered his time and his money. He was always there. He was the one we could depend on.”
‘‘Charlie was the real founder of the Castleton Fire Department,” agreed Ruby Cannon whose husband Ray was the company's first fire chief. "He’d get up in the middle of the night to check on the fire trucks. He kept the fire company going all these years.”
“He took money out of his pocket many a time for something or other. He was sold on the fire department,” Ray Cannon said, pointing out that Charlie remained active in two fire departments in Maryland as well, both located near his electrical business there.
Gasch’s generosity of spirit encompassed more than the fire department, however. “He was always on call to help people, specially round here in the winter time with frozen pipes— anything in his line of work,” Ruby Cannon recalled.
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