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| Description: | Several men fighting a small forest fire. One man has a water pack on his back. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters standing amid smoking timbers aim their hoses to douse the flames. |
| Date: | 02 27 1904 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Capitol fire, showing a crowd watching near the South Wing. Some of the contents of the building are already in wagons ready to be hauled a... |
| Date: | 02 27 1904 |
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| Description: | Fire at the third Wisconsin State Capitol, showing the South Wing, and spectators gathered on the path. Some of the salvaged contents of the building are s... |
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| Description: | Volunteer fire fighters prepare to put out a fire on a roof. The fire company's hose cart is the vehicle with two large wheels which was attached to any av... |
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| Description: | Well jetting equipment with three hose lines extinguishing forest fires. |
| Date: | 08 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Spectators and fireman at the Fitzgibbons building fire downtown. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A firetruck with its hose hanging into the water is surrounded by debris and other wreckage left from a tornado. |
| Date: | 02 1904 |
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| Description: | A crowd watches as a stream of water is trained on the south wing of the burning third Wisconsin State Capitol. The Centennial Fountain, with a winter cove... |
| Date: | 07 1980 |
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| Description: | "Theresa firemen respond to a silo fire at the Henning farm on County P." |
| Date: | 02 18 1996 |
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| Description: | A view from Bedford Street of the smouldering ruins of the Hotel Washington. A pedestrian crosses the street in front of a parked firetruck. Water being us... |
| Date: | 02 18 1996 |
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| Description: | Water from firehoses has frozen into ice that coats power wires, trees, and pumps at the gas station next to the Hotel Washington, which burns in the backg... |
| Date: | 02 18 1996 |
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| Description: | Firefighters attempt to extinguish the blaze destroying the Hotel Washington. Most of the building has collapsed. |
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| Description: | Elevated view from across street towards fire engines parked in front of Haack's Bicycles at 1250 East Washington Avenue. Firefighters are on the roof. The... |
| Date: | 09 26 1908 |
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| Description: | Gutted remains of St. Joseph's Church in the aftermath of the fire of September 26, 1908. |
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| Description: | One man, wearing a hard hat, is kneeling in the dirt in the foreground, while another man wearing a cap is resting one foot on a Minneapolis-Moline disk pl... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man using a TD-18A to cover up a fire. Subject: "TD-18A — Land Clearing." Where Taken: "MtS." Information with photograph reads: "This ... |
| Date: | 02 19 1959 |
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| Description: | Madison firemen fighting an apartment fire at 146 West Johnson street. |
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