Keywords: bucket brigades
Item 14271
Contributed by: Hose 5 Fire Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Bangor Media: Rubber
Item 79973
Waldo Street fire, Rumford, 1923, 1923
Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: 1923-08-02 Location: Rumford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Waldoboro Fire Department's 175 Years
While the town of Waldoboro was chartered in 1773, it began organized fire protection in 1838 with a volunteer fire department and a hand pump fire engine, the Water Witch.
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Protect and Serve: Hallowell Fireman's Association
"… Serve: Hallowell Fireman's Association From bucket brigades to modern pumpers, the Hallowell Fireman's Association record is a distinguished one."
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Protect and Serve - Hallowell Fire and Police
"… least two leather buckets for possible use in a "bucket brigade", and canvas bags to provide for the removal of goods at fires."
