Keywords: fire truck
Item 98782
Gay Block Fire, Waldoboro, 1962
Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: 1962 Location: Waldoboro Media: Photographic print
Item 9361
1937 Chevrolet fire truck, Presque Isle, ca. 1959
Contributed by: Presque Isle Fire Department Date: circa 1959 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print
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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.
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Civil Defense: Fear and Safety
In the 1950s and the 1960s, Maine's Civil Defense effort focused on preparedness for hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters and a more global concern, nuclear war. Civil Defense materials urged awareness, along with measures like storing food and other staple items and preparing underground or other shelters.
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Historic Hallowell - The Hallowell Union Fire Club
"After horrible fires were fought, firefighters and local citizens would get together and use music in a parade going up and down the streets to…"
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The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
