Upper Peninsula Firefighters Memorial Museum Michigan

Among the many retired firetrucks is an 1857 Pumper

Images from http://chrisjaysodyssey.blogspot.com/2010/11/more-than-we-ever-wanted-to-know-about.html

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobindrums/8393525983/

the museum website is http://www.nps.gov/kewe/learn/historyculture/firefighters-memorial-museum.htm

Whittier, CA Fire Department in 1904

found on http://www.vintag.es/2014/12/amazing-vintage-photographs-of-daily.html

French firefighters on a motorcycle with sidecar

Maybe they just got the motorcycle, as they look really happy

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/654324954604252/?fref=nf

Just 100 years ago, New York's subway electrical transmission lines smoked the insulation, caused so much toxic smoke people panicked

That morning, two electrical cables feeding into manholes at Broadway and 52nd Street suddenly shorted out, causing a blackout in the subway tunnels below. The cable insulation, not fireproof, began issuing masses of “dense acrid” smoke that soon filled the tunnels. 

The event occurred at the start of rush hour so there where three trains between 50th Street and Columbus Circle that were immediately affected. Over 2,500 people were trapped in the subway cars or stuck inside suddenly dark stations.

they tore out the sidewalk grates that covered the subway so they could lower ladders and pull out injured people that had been trampled in the panic. Only one woman died, but hundreds were hurt by the stampede and some succumbed to the toxic smoke

http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/category/planes-trains-and-automobiles

I see several rear tires that have some traction aid, chains or ropes

wow, this is ornate

unbelievable that a hose carriage for fire fighting was made this incredibly ornate

Found on http://www.brhoward.com/neptune_hose_carriage.html

Imagine getting the chance to buy your great-grand dads fire truck, the one he was the Fire Chief on

photos from a gallery of a couple dozen images you might want to see at http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/gallery/news/ford-model-t-fire-pumper/collection_867d52dc-c454-11e4-8033-c754830d5e0f.html?mode=jqm&pos=8

There is a video on http://videos.pressofatlanticcity.com/1921-Model-T-Fire-Truck-Back-in-West-Cape-May-28675714

Back in 1921 Chuck McPherson’s great-grandfather, Bill Eldredge was the fire chief of the West Cape May Volunteer Fire Company, and spearheaded the effort to get a Model T pumper fire truck, Ford made the cab and chassis, but then the company had to bring the chassis to the Hale Fire Pump Co. in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, for installation of the pump and other outfitting work.

Recently, a fire truck collector called Chuck and offered him first chance to buy it. Chuck is the possibly 4th generation fire fighter, his great grand dad was fire chief in 1921, his grand father joined the fire dept in 1937.

While modern pumpers carry at least 1,000 gallons of water, the Model T has a 60-gallon tank. It could be set to draft from a lake or other water source, while another option was using a bucket brigade to keep filling the tank through a “slop feed” on the top.

If they had to go in a house, a handy Dietz kerosene lantern hung on back of the truck for interior lighting.

For more of the story: http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/west-cape-fire-department-gets-model-t-pumper-back/article_3050c0b4-c603-11e4-abea-8f4757f5eb4b.html

1948 Dodge fire truck

Detroit Fire Department, 1921, Packard

Found on http://www.mychurchgrowth.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1921-Packard-Fire-Truck-Detroit-Fire-Dept.jpg

a "wow" photo, a servicar Indian, a steam pump, a gas station in 1948, and the coolest neon sign I think I've ever seen

Texaco Station at the Last Frontier Hotel

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/353785941367129/  the Service and Fillin Stations facebook page

early Knox truck adding motive power to the ladder wagon about 100 years ago

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/Fordmodelt/

If you want to look through some other very early fire fighting vehicles that were bridging the gap from horse drawn to motor powered, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-transition-of-steam-pumper-from.html

the transition of the steam pumper from horse drawn to front drive, to the modern vehicle version

from horse drawn above, to the motor driven below

I've posted all of these in the past at different times, but though that's great for citing sources, it's lousy at a comprehensive comparison / contrast  post

Sometimes things go wrong... like putting out a car on fire