Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the last time a horse-drawn steam fire apparatus responded to a fire within the District. To recognize the day, D.C. Fire put on a modern recreation of the ...

Time marched on, and by 1871 the Friendships were ready for a horse-drawn steam fire engine. Town Council appointed two representatives to go to Philadelphia and examine some second-hand steam ...

Time marched on, and by 1871 the Friendships were ready for a horse-drawn steam fire engine. Town Council appointed two representatives to go to Philadelphia and examine some second-hand steam ...

Columnist Mike Marotte takes a look back at the steam fire apparatus that helped douse many a blaze in Chambersburg in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

WASHINGTON — Before there were fire trucks, there were horses. Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the last time a horse-drawn steam fire apparatus responded to a fire within the District.

The municipal corporation of Cincinnati have just had constructed for use in extinguishing fires, a steam fire-engine ; and at a public trial of it it has proved entirely successful.

By 1913, a Cincinnati-based company called Ahrens-Fox Manufacturing was the leading group when it came to transforming horse-drawn or steam-powered engines into something that could properly be ...

The fire in the first experiment was lighted at 1:20 P.M., and in 10 min. 38 sec. the engine started at a pressure of 33 pounds of steam. The pressure in 14 min. 5 sec. rose to 14 pounds.

For rural towns and the suburbs of large cities, this engine possessesmany advantages, coming, as it does, between the hand engine and the expensive steam fire-engine.

The full film, which is available to watch below, delves into the history of American firefighting machinery, including old trucks, pumps, ladders and even some horse-drawn fire engines.

Cincinnati’s steam fire engine was not the first; other inventors had produced steam-powered fire engines decades earlier. Cincinnati’s first steam-powered fire engine exploded during a public ...

Later, a much-needed upgrade saw horse-drawn fire engines introduced. A horse-drawn carriage used in Glasgow in 1901, similar to what would have been used in Rochford.