Bob Carter - March 2025

Bob Carter points to a fire bell inside his Jeannette home Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Carter and friend Mark Scalzo co-founded the Jeannette junior auxiliary fire department as teens in the 1970s. Carter has had 50 years of service with the Jeannette department.

Bob Carter (left) and Mark Scalzo, both 66, are pictured at the fire station in Jeannette on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The two men co-founded the Jeannette junior auxiliary fire department as teens in the 70s.

City of Jeannette and firefighting memorabilia is seen in a cabinet in Bob Carter's Jeannette home Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Carter and friend Mark Scalzo co-founded the Jeannette junior auxiliary fire department as teens in the 1970s. Carter has had 50 years of service with the department.

Bob Carter shows a photograph taken around 1975 of him (right) and friend Mark Scalzo (left) with a hose cart they restored. Carter and Scalzo co-founded the Jeannette junior auxiliary fire department as teens in the 70s. Carter has had 50 years of service with the Jeannette fire department.

An old fire helmet is seen in Bob Carter's Jeannette home Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Carter and friend Mark Scalzo co-founded the Jeannette junior auxiliary fire department in the 1970s. Carter has had 50 years of service with the department.

Bob Carter (left) and Mark Scalzo talk to TribLive on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025 about co-founding the Jeannette junior auxiliary fire department in the 1970s.