At the town meeting in 1925 it was voted to sell the Mechanic #6 the ladder wagon and the alarm bell. The next addition to the equipment of the department was a Maxim pumper bought in 1927. This was a fully equiped 500 G.P.M. pumper the price of which was $7500. This was known as Engine 1.
An auxilliary department was formned at Cresent Beach in 1931 with William Raymond as chief. A trailor was purchased for this department with a 40 gallon chemical tank and 100 feet of chemical hose. A small siren was mounted on Raymond's store to call this crew. This trailor was destroyed in the 1938 hurricane.
In 1941 another truck was added to the department. This was a smaller pumo mounted on a Ford chassis, built by Maxim, and was known as Engine 2. This truck replaced the model T which ws then nearly twenty years old.
In 1945 Chief Perkins passed away after more then fifty years on the department. He was succeeded by George Bradley who had been Asst. Chief for a number of years. At this time the number of calls for the fire department had gone up to 50 to 60 per year and the appropriation was now about $8000. Another small engine, Engine 4, had been added and a pick-up truck for auxilliary equipment had been purchased.
The present station was built in 1951 and the department moved in that summer. The old quaters in the town hall were converted for the use of the police department and the town ambulance was moved in. A new truck was purchased in 1955 to replace the 1927 Maxim, Engine 1. This was a 750 G.P.M. pumper built by Ward-LaFrance the cost of which was $17000 dollars.
The telephone company installed a dial system in Mattapoisett in 1958 which meant the discontinuance of the telephone office in town. An office was established in the police station which was to be manned 24 hours a day to handle all emergency calls and the fire alarm equipment was moved to this office.
A Van type truck was bought in 1957 to replace the pick-up and converted to an emergency or rescue truck known as Emergency 3. This carries a generator and flood lights, smoke ejector, tools and other equipment that might be needed at a fire.
In 1958, after a disastrous school fire in Chicago, the town voted to install automatic fire alarm in the center school. This called for an alarm that could be coded, so the siren was replaced with an air horn and was the start of a fire alarm system, also the nursing home and the museum. These buildings are equiped with heat detectors that would sound the fire alarm in case of fire.
Chief Bradley submitted his resignation in October of 1962 and Asst. Chief Kenneth Wood was appointed to the position of Chief. In 1964 a new truck was purchased to replace the 1941 Engine 2. This was a 500 G.P.M. pumper built by Maxim and the cost was $14000 dollars. The truck which replaced was sold to the town of East Washington, New Hampshire.
In the 1960's the department was made up mostly of local contractors. A few members worked outside the town but very few. When the horn blew, a big tank outside the station which maintained a constant charge of compressed air that supplied a horn mounted on the roof of the fire station which could be heard all through town. That was the signal for the town's people and the firefighters that there was a fire. The contractors would become firemen and leave there tools and head for the station. With in a matter of minutes three fire engines and a van would be out the door responding, usually clad in there work clothes, hanging on the back step with little or no concern for there own safety.