Randy Watts
Randy Watts was born in Carlisle and has resided here most of his life. He graduated from Carlisle High School and Shippensburg State College. He was the Fire Service Coordinator for Cumberland County, and for years he worked in the industrial insurance industry.
Randy was a certified instructor for the Pennsylvania State Fire Academy and has taught college level fire protection courses at the Harrisburg Area Community College. He has served as a volunteer firefighter in several communities, including Carlisle and Harrisburg.
He has published over four dozen books and booklet on local history covering a wide range of topics, including railroads, manufacturing and Carlisle history.
The Fire Houses of Carlisle Pennsylvania 1789-2013
The Fire Houses of Carlisle Pennsylvania 1789-2013
Ace local historian Randy Watts in 2013 wrote a brief but typically thorough history of the firehouses and companies that occupied them in Carlisle PA. "This narrative will track the fire stations by company, in their order of founding,. For many years Carlisle's volunteer firemen followed this protocol when lining up companies for parades, so it continues a tradition."
36 pages, endnotes, many photographs.