WEST MILFORD. Greenwood Forest Fire Company #3 celebrates its centennial.
In the early 1920s, West Milford’s Greenwood Forest area experienced disastrous fires at the legendary Brown’s Hotel, Kidd’s Landing and Thorn’s store.
Residents tried to douse them with buckets of water, but the flames won out.
Those losses, along with the lack of adequate fire protection, inspired several...