Now these volunteers are fighting to keep their doors open, but it’s not a financial crisis they face; it’s calls from within the borough to consolidate the four fire companies that serve the community.<\/p>\n
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“I think a lot of people are upset as to what they’re trying to do, and I don’t understand why. I don’t see how it would be advantageous for them,” said Black Diamond Member Rusty Naughton.<\/p>\n
Over the last 35 years, the fire company has cooked up a pork dinner to raise money to keep operations going.<\/p>\n
With word spreading that the fire company could be shut down, A long line of hungry supporters from the community responded.<\/p>\n
Officials with Black Diamond told Newswatch 16 they have received 50% more orders than in previous years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Liz Kotcho has been buying the dinners for five years, but said there was a more important reason to get one today.<\/p>\n
“I also came to support black diamond hose company because they need this whole company up here; the roads are narrow. It’s a tight area, and it’d take too much time for another hose company to get to where they need to be,” said Kotcho.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, we need our volunteers, and that’s what life is all about, you know? I volunteered years ago, and I want to support what volunteers can do,” said Leroy James from Archbald.<\/p>\n
As volunteers of all ages help in the back worked to get hundreds of dinners out the front door, people picking up food were offering encouragement as well as money.<\/p>\n
“I think they should stick around the greatest punch you guys you ever wanna meet.”<\/p>\n
Mike McAndrew from Jessup has been purchasing dinners since the fundraiser began in 1990, and he doesn’t want it to end.<\/p>\n
“They are a fire department going back 125 years, and we want to see them stay here another 125, so I will support them any way I can,” said McAndrew.<\/p>\n
A goal the volunteers of the company tell us they want as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Black Diamond Hose Company in Archbald has served the community for over 125 years. ARCHBALD, Pa. \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-276800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}