FIGHTING FIRES

BY Vince Hancock
Ellsworth County I-R

Annual balls and banquets figure prominently in press clippings about Ellsworth’s all-volunteer fire crew. The leftovers, dumped in the Smoky River after the gatherings, supposedly pleased the catfish.

More people sit at the banquet table now, said Fire Chief Bob Kepka. “There ain’t no food left.”

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