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Fire Engines in Street

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Description: A fire fighter driving a horse-drawn fire engine is parked on the street. A group of people are looking up toward a building where a rope is coming down fr...
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Fire Boat

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Description: A fire boat is next to a dock with burning objects. Fire fighters on the boat are using high-powered hoses to put out a fire. Smoke and steam fill the back...
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Fire Boats Near Walkway

Date: 1897
Description: Boats used for fighting fires are docked near a walkway. On the left the walkway is full of men, some gathered near the boats and a fire hose stretched out...
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Victorian-Style House Gutted by Fire

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Description: A large Victorian-style house gutted by a fire. Ladders are leaning up on the sides, reaching up many different levels. Two people are on the roof spraying...
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Fire Fighters with New Rescue Truck

Date: 01 06 1949
Description: Five fire fighters, Kendall Niebuhr, William J. Sullivan, John G. Randall, Chief Edward J. Page, and Gill S. Stone, pose with newly customized rescue truck...
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Shorewood Fire Fighters

Date: 1930
Description: Members of Shorewood Fire Fighters standing in front of fire engine posing outdoors near a lake.
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Fire Truck Parked Outdoors

Date: 04 08 1938
Description: Right side view of an International D-50 Special 750-gallon fire truck with ladders and fire extinguishers mounted on its side parked outdoors. The truck a...
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International D-30 Fire Truck

Date: 10 13 1938
Description: A man sits behind the wheel of an International D-30 fire truck in front of the Tama fire station. There is a ladder attached to the side behind the driver...
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Camp Pendleton Fire Department

Date: 1944
Description: Two K-5 International trucks equipped with hoses and ladders used by the Camp Pendleton fire department are parked near a building and a road sign. The ori...
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Town of Madison Fire Trucks

Date: 04 05 1950
Description: A reserve water tank truck with a 1,100 gallon capacity has been added to the town of Madison fire department to insure adequate water supply in fighting f...
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City Hall and Fire Department

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Description: A view of City Hall and the fire department. A horse-drawn fire engine with fire fighters and dogs standing in front of the entrance to the fire station ga...
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Monticello Fire Company

Date: 1931
Description: The Monticello Fire Company, with Christ M. Stauffer, the chief, standing at the center.
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Firetruck Amid Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: A firetruck with its hose hanging into the water is surrounded by debris and other wreckage left from a tornado.
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Bus Fire

Date: 05 01 1951
Description: A Madison fire truck parks at the scene of a Greyhound bus fire at the corner of East Main Street and South Pinckney Street in front of the S.S. Kresge sto...
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Shorewood Hills Fourth of July Celebration

Date: 07 04 1951
Description: Children riding in a 1923 vintage fire truck at the Shorewood Hills Fourth of July celebration. Driver of the truck is Dobby Dotson and with him in the pa...
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International Fire Truck Parked Outside Residence

Date: 1916
Description: View from across the street of an International Model F or 31 truck used as a fire engine. The truck is parked outside a suburban residence. A young girl s...
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International Fire Truck Parked on Dirt Road

Date: 1916
Description: International Model F or 31 truck used by the Rapid City Fire Department. Parked on a dirt road near a body of water.
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International Fire Truck Parked on Dirt Road

Date: 1916
Description: International Model F or 31 truck used by the Rapid City Fire Department. Parked on a dirt road near a body of water.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsors

Date: 07 18 1951
Description: Soap Box Derby Entrant, 11-year-old Johnny Huseboe, behind the wheel of a fire truck at No. 5 fire station, 2137 Atwood Avenue, along with four fire fighte...
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Mobile Civil Defense Test

Date: 10 31 1951
Description: Elevated view of some of the 125 vehicles which were used in Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. The vehicles are parked on ...

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