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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on ladders climbing up to the windows of a burning building. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on the ground spraying water from a fire hose. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Five fire fighters en route to a fire in an International CO-8190 fire truck. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters use an International fire and rescue truck with an eighty-five foot mounted ladder to fight a fire, possibly as part of a training exercise. ... |
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| Description: | Fire fighters are posing on and around a fire engine in front of the fire station. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A hose wagon of the Madison fire department racing around the corner of North Pinckney and East Main streets. A dog is chasing the wagon. |
| Date: | 04 25 1935 |
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| Description: | International Model C-40 fire truck with floodlights. The truck was owned by the Memphis, Tennessee fire department. A man stands on top of the truck and g... |
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| Description: | Well jetting equipment with three hose lines extinguishing forest fires. |
| Date: | 09 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Edward J. Page, selected as new chief of Fire Department by the Police and Fire Commission. He is a fourteen year veteran of the Fire Departmen... |
| Date: | 07 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison fire fighters load Red Cross boxes to send overseas. Each box contained 36 knit bags made and filled by volunteers, each bag contained a pencil, st... |
| Date: | 08 19 1922 |
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| Description: | A man performs a ladder-climbing stunt in front of onlookers as part of the West Pullman and Milwaukee Works Fire Department Exhibition at West Pullman Par... |
| Date: | 11 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of three fire trucks at a fire in the Wisconsin State Journal building, 115-23 South Carroll Street. Other buildings on the street, looking ... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters battle a controlled fire during training with an International Harvester Scout 80 4x4 mounted with a fire apparatus. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Groups of fire fighters work to put out a fire in winter. Smoke is billowing out the windows and covering the facade. A building on the far left has a sign... |
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| Description: | A group of fire fighters standing in the street while two men are being raised on a moving ladder, which is attached to the back of a truck. Two other ladd... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A small group of four fighters and one of their bosses are standing amid burned remnants from a fire. One man is holding a fire hose that is spraying water... |
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| Description: | Fire Department chief, sitting at a desk in a profile view. |
| Date: | 09 30 1949 |
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| Description: | Maple Bluff fire chief Lawrence Nielsen places the first official dial call on Madison's new 100 percent dial phone service. |
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