Kinderhook community hopes to add fire station

  • Last month, members of the Kinderhook Fire Association (KFA) donated a high-powered fire scene light and high-tech firefighting backpack to the Putnam County Fire Department. L-R: KFA Vice President Terea Jacobs with a PCFD firefighter and KFA President Elliott Perkins. CONTRIBUTED
    Last month, members of the Kinderhook Fire Association (KFA) donated a high-powered fire scene light and high-tech firefighting backpack to the Putnam County Fire Department. L-R: KFA Vice President Terea Jacobs with a PCFD firefighter and KFA President Elliott Perkins. CONTRIBUTED

    The Kinderhook Fire Association (KFA) was founded in April 2016 by a small group of concerned residents to promote the need for a fire station in the area, which includes the Kinderhook, Reseau’s Crossing, Note, Twilight Shores, Murder Creek, Burtom, Jones Road, and Rabbit Skip communities, among others.

    Those original residents included Bobby Sikes, Gerald and Polly Hull, Ronnie and Freta Goodwin,…