Captain Dan Direnzo Jr retired from the Cherry Hill Fire Department in 2008 after serving a lengthy career with the department which began before consolidation. Like many of our members Captain Direnzo first started his service as a volunteer with the Erlton Fire Department where he would later be hired as a career firefighter and start down a path that would eventually lead to his role as Chief Financial Officer for the consolidated Fire District. In this episode we touch on more of our early department history but spend a considerable amount of time discussing one of the most historic fires in our departments history; The Garden State Race Track fire that broke out on April 14th, 1977. Captain Direnzo was the first arriving company officer and reflects on his actions and decisions that day. We close the episode out discussing his time as CFO and the lasting mark he made on our department.