The station is being designed as a replacement for one destroyed in a 2011 tornado. Source The Joplin Globe, Mo. Nov. 22--JOPLIN, Mo. -- One of Joplin's replacement fire stations will take on a ...
Firefighters in Chicago's Engine Company 21 helped invent firehouse poles, and by 1878, all of the city's stations had them installed to increase response times. The sliding pole, one of the signature ...
CHICAGO (CBS) --African American firefighters played a key role in developing a staple of the firehouse: the sliding pole. In honor of Black History Month, CBS 2's Derrick Young spoke with a retired ...
EVERETT — It’s a symbol of firefighters, superheroes and dancers. But the pole has all but vanished from most fire stations these days. What’s up with that? Taking the steps is safer. The 20-foot ...
Firefighters slide down the slippery pole to a waiting engine. (1948) Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis __1878: __A Chicago firefighter hears the alarm ringing and slides down a pole that just happened ...
AFTER THE REPORTERS and cameras left, after fire officials and city politicians departed, there was firefighter Dick Chester the next morning, the world in his hands. That part of the world, anyway, ...
The "Albany Fire Protectors" seen in this undated, probably late-19th century photograph, might have used a fire pole. New York State Library When the fire bell rang, it used to be common for ...
A scout leader who broke his back sliding down a fireman's pole in front of his troop has been awarded almost £170,000 compensation by a High Court judge. Robert Wilson, 49, fractured a vertebrae when ...
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