Date: | 02 18 1996 |
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Description: | View towards a small group of people watching as fire destroys the Hotel Washington. Behind them is an American Red Cross disaster services vehicle. |
Date: | 09 28 1961 |
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Description: | Jerome A. Gumbinger, a member of the state fire prevention conference's planning committee, watches as two staff members demonstrate a technique for evacua... |
Date: | 10 01 1964 |
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Description: | The American Radio Relay League sponsors a communications and rescue drill based on a simulated flood near Verona. 30 workers and 35 mobile communications ... |
Date: | 10 16 1965 |
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Description: | During a practice disaster drill, a nurse and a man are seen with a "casualty" on a stretcher at the Madison General Hospital emergency room. In this drill... |
Date: | 1976 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of three men standing outdoors and looking at a map. Behind them is a dump truck and a loader/backhoe. In the background is a city s... |
Date: | 01 20 1954 |
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Description: | Chatting about previous fire fighting experiences are (from left to right): Captain Arthur Wilcox, Firemen Russell Mani, and Wilbur Wright. They are sittin... |
Date: | 05 22 1957 |
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Description: | A tree is lying against a house at 3534 East Washington Avenue. The workers who cut the tree down said it had been weakened by high winds the day before. |
Date: | 10 29 1957 |
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Description: | Two workmen in coveralls are laying hose to pump water from a flooded pit where the Pioneer Building was demolished at Main Street and Monona Avenue. On th... |
Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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Description: | Patricia Ann Palmer (2) waiting for rescue workers to free her right leg caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Her father Michael B. Palmer, at ... |
Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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Description: | Patricia Ann Palmer (2) is rescued from an abandoned drainage pipe at Truax Park. A rescue crew member carries her bundled in a blanket to a police car for... |
Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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Description: | Young children inspect the hole where Patricia Ann Palmer's (2) leg was caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Rescue workers cut the hole in the... |
Date: | 06 18 1940 |
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Description: | Crowds standing in the street watching as a fire burns in the four story, brick Hotel Superior. People are being rescued with a ladder and others have esca... |
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