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New Fire Department Mobile Radio Equipment
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Fire Chief Edward J. Page is broadcasting instructions to an aerial truck using new mobile radio equipment with driver, Fireman Frank McMahon. The mobile radio system was the first fire department system in the state.
September 20, 1947
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Fire Department Mobile Radio Equipment
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First Assistant Fire Chief Patrick J. Brown with microphone, and Fireman Grant Prideau receiving radio instructions from Fire Chief Edward J. Page, demonstrating the new mobile radio equipment. The...
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Unidentified young man (Landsman?) seated at a table with a WIBA microphone.
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