About Jamison Road Fire Company

The history of the Jamison Road Volunteer Fire Company is like the Town it serves, one of need, because of growth. Late in the year of 1856 the Committee of Divisions of Towns created, from the existing Towns of Lancaster and Aurora, the town of Elma.

As the population grew in the township the concern for fire protection was on the minds of the residents. Fire companies followed the population growth in Elma.

First the Blossom Fire Company was established in 1872. Then in 1913, Springbrook Fire Company, Inc. was established. In the Fall of 1936 the hamlet on Bowen Road between Clinton Street and Bullis Road became the home of the Elma Fire Company, Inc. (Incorporated 4/13/37)

These three departments served the residents of the Township for many years. As more and more people moved into the southeastern corner of Elma, the area bordering Marilla and Aurora, a need for fire protection more central to the residents became apparent.

On the eve of America's entry into the Second World War, several residents of the area bordered by the towns of Marilla and Aurora to the east and south, Rice Road on the north and a line near Bowen Road on the west, gathered to establish a fire company - the year was 1940.

By the Spring of 1941 the ground work was finished, and on May 5, 1941 a certificate of Incorporation for the Jamison Road Volunteer Fire Company was completed by Lester E. Hopper, Thomas McCubbin, Claude McCubbin, Ernest F. Bleeck and Herman Walter after witnessing by Harry R. Hennessey, Town of Aurora, and approved in Supreme Court of New York, Eighth Judicial District.

As set forth by the corporation papers, the purposes were to acquire and own fire apparatus for the protection of persons and property from injury, loss, damage and destruction by fire. Claude McCubbin was the company's first president, Elia Nicoloff became Jamison's first fire chief.