Members of The Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters Local 253 who volunteered their services began this past weekend by installing new drywall in the second-floor meeting room and staircase leading to it at the Company 1 firehouse.
Volunteer members of the International Union of Painters and Tapers District Council 711 Local 1976 will join the carpenters next in taping and finishing the drywall.
Local 253 has a long history of volunteering to help area frontline workers.
Providing the equipment was Sloan and Company, with materials obtained from L&W Supply.
As one union member put it, the carpenters are "paying it forward" to volunteer firefighters and EMS workers who "come out at 2-3 in the morning for a medical emergency or, worse yet, a fire in your home."
Several local government officials and Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco -- himself a veteran Paramus firefighter -- came to thank the volunteers.
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