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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A small group of fire fighters fight an unseen fire with three fire hoses. Smoke obscures the fire, and on the right, a fire engine has smoke billowing fro... |
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| Description: | Fire fighters are posing on and around a fire engine in front of the fire station. |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on the street aiming fire hoses at a fire in a collapsing building. Smoke envelopes most of the fire and rubble. The wall of the building has... |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Milwaukee Central Fire Station, with fire fighters posing in front of the building and around a fire engine. |
| Date: | 01 02 1934 |
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| Description: | Fire Chief John Lahm standing in front of a fire truck parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 18-20 South Webster Street. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Small clusters of fire fighters work to put out a fire with fire hoses, which are aimed high at a building covered in smoke. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on the ground spraying water from a fire hose. |
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| Description: | Seven fire fighters are in an alley putting out a fire in a building. Three of the fire fighters are running with a fire hose, while two other men hold the... |
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| Description: | A view of City Hall and the fire department. A horse-drawn fire engine with fire fighters and dogs standing in front of the entrance to the fire station ga... |
| Date: | 01 02 1934 |
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| Description: | Madison Fire Department's new gray $16,200 aerial fire truck parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 18-20 South Webster Street. Roy Hurling is drivin... |
| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district. |
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| Description: | A fire boat is next to a dock with burning objects. Fire fighters on the boat are using high-powered hoses to put out a fire. Smoke and steam fill the back... |
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| Description: | View across water towards fire fighters in a boat on the river putting out a fire in a large building. Water sprays from fire hoses from two directions, wi... |
| Date: | 11 12 1960 |
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| Description: | Chief Ader of the Elm Grove fire department, conductor of the fire school, demonstrates spraying a small fire during a fire school held by the Maple Bluff ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered on the street as jets of water are being directed by fire fighters towards a fire in a church. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Members of Shorewood Fire Fighters standing in front of fire engine posing outdoors near a lake. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A steam fire engine of Milwaukee's Fire Company #2 drawn by three white horses racing to a fire. Prior motor driven fire equipment was a greater danger tha... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Street scene showing destruction after Peshtigo fire. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the Collins fire department volunteers, a fire wagon, the fire house and a nearby grain elevator. Caption reads: "C.V.F.D., Collin... |
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