[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 60 (Friday, April 13, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E463-E464]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      HONORING FIREFIGHTER EDWIN ULINE SR. FOR 70 YEARS OF SERVICE

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                         HON. ELISE M. STEFANIK

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, April 13, 2018

  Ms. STEFANIK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate and honor 
Firefighter Edwin Uline, Sr. for seventy years of active service with 
the Ballston Fire Department.
  In 1948, at the age of eighteen, Ed joined Union Fire Company, one of 
two volunteer companies that make up the Ballston Spa Fire Department. 
He has been serving his community ever since. Ed worked his way up the

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ranks of the Department by serving as Company Foreman, Second Assistant 
Chief, First Assistant Chief, and finally as Fire Chief from 1965 to 
1967 and again from 1980 to 1981. In addition, Ed served for fifty 
years as the Union Company's chief mechanic. Ed is a dedicated public 
servant, who also served his country in combat during the Korean War 
and was a driver and mechanic for the Saratoga County Department of 
Public Works prior to joining the Fire Department.
  Over the course of his career as a volunteer firefighter, Ed 
responded to countless fires and emergency incidents, notably the 
Saratoga Springs Convention Hall fire and the Saratoga Hospital fire of 
1965. Ed was instrumental in standing up the neighboring Malta Ridge 
Fire Company, of which he is a charter member.
  Having devoted three quarters of his life to fire protection, Ed 
serves as an exemplary member of his community. On behalf of New York's 
21st district, I would like to thank Ed for a lifetime of hard work and 
dedication to his community.

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