Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the last time a horse-drawn steam fire apparatus ... But on Dec. 30, 1924, Engine Company No. 18 was the last to respond to a real fire in Washington, D.C ...

It is a combination of the well-known and extensively used endless j apron horse ... the hand engine and the expensive steam fire-engine. Its lightness enables it to be rapidly drawn to a fire ...

Wouldn't it be great to turn back the hands of time and witness Chambersburg's horse drawn steam fire engines in action? This column will look at when steam fire engines made their entry into the ...

The very early fire engines (yes, fire trucks are called ... was the leading group when it came to transforming horse-drawn or steam-powered engines into something that could properly be called ...

More local history: Billiards was big in Chambersburg in the 20th century Time marched on, and by 1871 the Friendships were ready for a horse-drawn steam fire engine. Town Council appointed two ...

The municipal corporation of Cincinnati have just had constructed for use in extinguishing fires, a steam fire-engine ; and at a ... any length of time. It is drawn by horses, assisted by the ...

On that occasion ten companies were drawn into ... the back of a wheel horse, seized the rein, spoke to the horses, and out we went kiting.” The steam engine in that anecdote was, most likely, the ...

The new 40 horse power gasoline fire engine ... It is two tons lighter than the ordinary steam fire engine and cost half as much as steam engines of equal capacity. It has a four-inch suction ...

28—A 1919 fire engine once used by United Steam Fire Engine Company 3 will ... Prior to the 1910s, most fire equipment was horse-drawn. "It's a beautiful piece," Jewell said.

THE LIFE-SAVING work of fighting fires has come a long way from church wardens with buckets and horse-drawn fire engines, but Rochford's Old Fire Station harks back to a much more primitive ...