Nursing Home Devoted To Volunteer Firemen

May 28, 2007 New York - Firefighting seeped into William Kelly Jr.'s blood as he grew up next to a fire station. He joined the New York City Fire Department and served as a volunteer firefighter for 37 years, even as he worked as a paid firefighter. Eventually, he rose to chief of his hometown volunteer department in Levittown, Nassau County. Today, Kelly lives among chiefs. He is one of 87 residents of the Firemen's Home in Hudson, a nursing home devoted to volunteer firefighters. Kelly, 87, said ...