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TODAY: The Flint Hill Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company's second and newest pumper, a 1988 FMC Custom.
before gaining gray hairs.
Another story goes that a Flint Hill volunteer fire fighter was driving along Route 211 West when he spied a wellknown mansion that was being consumed by flames.
The house belonged to a wealthy older man, Emerson Smith, who had married a young woman who had turned up in Rappahannock County several years before.
The firefighter drove up the driveway and leaped out to help. The young woman was on the lawn and he cried out, “Is there anybody in the house?”
She shook her head. “I don’t think so.” But just then the fireman saw a child’s head in a window. “What about her?” he said. The woman said she’d forgotten the child.
The fireman raced into the burning building, found the child and as he was carrying the child out, heard a moaning behind a door in the hall, but the door was locked.
The fireman got inside and found an older man half succumbed to smoke and carried him to safety too. “I heard there was a divorce later in that household,” laughs Emory Russell when he tells the story.
There will be stories and more on Saturday, May 8, as the fire company holds its 50th anniversary celebration and dinner.
Nicholas M. Horrock may be reached at nhorrock@timespapei~s.com.
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