Past Chiefs of the Peekskill Fire Department



William B. Birdsall 1827 Columbian Engine 
John Rutan Columbian Engine 
Mott Lyons Columbian Engine
Stephan D Horton 1862-1863 Cortlandt H.& L.​

Cornelius Simpson 1869-1873 Columbian Hose

Issac Yocum 1886-1889 Columbian Engine

James H Haight 1889-  Washington Engine

​Urban Utter    Columbian Hose

Agustus Tompkins Columbian Engine

Dudley Hasbrouck 1893 Centennial Hose

Clifton Forbush 1907-1919 Cortlandt H. & L.

​Thomas Dacey 1920-1922 Columbian Engine

H.K. Strang 1923-1925 Columbian Engine

D. Wiley Travis 1928-1931 Cortlandt H. & L.

James McGuire 1934-1936 Centennial Hose

Frank Lambert 1937-1940 Columbian Engine

David E. Cleveland 1941-1946 Cortlandt H. & L.

Lewis Cole 1947-1949 Centennial Hose

Charles Olah Washington Engine

Joseph Chichitano 1957-1959 Peekskill Fire Patrol

Edward Crawford 1960-1962  Centennial Hose

Robert J Brooks 1965-1967 Cortlandt H. & L.

Dominick DiPierro 1971-1973 Columbian Hose

James Lippert 1974-1976 Peekskill Fire Patrol

Willard Dunwoody 1977-1979 Washington Engine

Lewis Haight 1980-1982 Centennial Hose

Douglas Hoffman 1983-1984 Cortlandt H. & L.

​Dominick DiPierro 1985 Columbian Hose

Earnest Conklin 1986-1988  Washington Engine

James Lippert 1989-1991 Peekskill Fire Patrol

Robert Ferris1992-1994 Cortlandt H. & L.

John Esposito 1995-1997 Centennial Hose

Robert Boddie Sr. 1998-2000 Columbian Hose

James Seymour 2001-2003 Washington Engine

James Howard 2004-2006 Peekskill Fire Patrol

John J. Pappas 2007-2009 Columbian Engine

Lenny Varella Jr. 2010- 2012 Columbian Engine

​Robert Fiorio 2013-2015 Peekskill Fire Patrol

​Vinny Malaspina 2016-2018 Columbian Engine

John Rose 2019-2021 Peekskill Fire Patrol 


Past 1st Assistant Chiefs

James Finnigan Centennial Hose

Wilbur Forman Columbian Engine

​Norman Haight Centennial Hose

​Michael Sniffen Columbian Engine