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| Date: | 06 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Firemen at Fire Station No. 7, 2410 Monroe Street, honor Howard Holzwarth upon his retirement from the fire department after 26 years. A fire truck is in ... |
| Date: | 05 01 1951 |
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| Description: | A Madison fire truck parks at the scene of a Greyhound bus fire at the corner of East Main Street and South Pinckney Street in front of the S.S. Kresge sto... |
| Date: | 07 18 1951 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby Entrant, 11-year-old Johnny Huseboe, behind the wheel of a fire truck at No. 5 fire station, 2137 Atwood Avenue, along with four fire fighte... |
| Date: | 05 28 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Firefighters union, Local 311, chose twelve-year-old Dick Hanson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian (Inez) Hanson, 134 South Butler Street ... |
| Date: | 11 24 1954 |
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| Description: | Four firefighters wearing working gear and positioned about a fire truck posing with a sign stating: "Firefighters March on Muscular Dystrophy." On the bac... |
| Date: | 06 10 1958 |
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| Description: | Police and spectators watch as firemen battle a blaze at Brandes Heating Co., 2046 Winnebago Street. |
| Date: | 12 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Madison's two new fire department pumper trucks, purchased for a total of $43,128, are being tested at the Tenney Park Locks by Assistant Fire Chief John H... |
| Date: | 01 31 1960 |
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| Description: | View of Wehrmann's Travel Shop storefront at 508 State Street with a fire truck parked outside. The shop was destroyed by fire late Sunday night. The Unive... |
| Date: | 08 10 1960 |
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| Description: | Madison firemen from Station No. 3 and their wives took 32 handicapped children to the Braves-Los Angeles baseball game in Milwaukee. Mayor Ivan Nestigen a... |
| Date: | 08 10 1960 |
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| Description: | Madison firemen from Station No. 3 at 1217 Williamson Street, along with their wives, took 32 handicapped children to the Braves-Los Angeles baseball game ... |
| Date: | 08 10 1960 |
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| Description: | Madison firemen from Station No. 3 at 1217 Williamson Street, along with their wives, took 32 handicapped children to the Braves-Los Angeles baseball game ... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 05 14 1886 |
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| Description: | Printed announcement of the opening of the Madison Fire Department. At the top, in a circular frame, is a fire fighter driving a horse-drawn fire engine. B... |
| Date: | 11 11 1964 |
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| Description: | Madison firefighters shown scaling ladders at the first permanent training center. It was originally a military theater for Truax Field and then the Madiso... |
| Date: | 01 13 1914 |
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| Description: | Smoke billowing from windows on the State Street (left) and Carroll Street (right) sides of the Wisconsin Building. Fire fighters on ladders are working fr... |
| Date: | 01 13 1914 |
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| Description: | A policeman, center, keeping an eye on bystanders as firemen on ladders fight a fire at the Wisconsin Building on State Street. The building housed the Com... |
| Date: | 10 05 1965 |
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| Description: | Ann Peterson, 9, of 2111 Clyde Gallagher Dr., proudly dons the loudspeaker-equipped fire helmet she won after visiting No. 3 fire station, 1217 Williamson ... |
| Date: | 09 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Three firemen are spraying water on a fire at the abandoned North Western Railway ice house, located on South Brearly Street along the railroad tracks betw... |
| 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... |
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