Firefighter Richard Muldowney Jr.
Ladder 7

Memorial Service was held
on April 13, 2002

Richard Muldowney Jr. He Was Known for His Courage - October 14, 2001

When 8-year-old Richard Muldowney moved onto Davison Place in Freeport in 1969, he and his back-fence neighbors formed their own fire department, building a small pumper out of wood scraps. "Every time the [real] fire whistles would blow, all the kids would run to my garage and roll this fire truck out, hook up our garden hoses to the neighbors' houses and kind of pretend there was a fire," remembered Ray Maguire, executive director of the Freeport Fire Department and Muldowney's childhood neighbor.

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