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Mr. Osborne also designed the photo-recording transit for making panoramic records of forest conditions, as well as a collapsible water-bag knapsack for firefighting (patented in the US in 1935). Many fire finders were manufactured from 1920 through 1935, but the manufacturer, Leupold & Stevens, Inc., stopped production of replacement parts ...
Hell's Half Acre was a precinct of Fort Worth, Texas designated as a red-light district beginning in the early to mid 1870s in the Old Wild West. [1] It came to be called the town's "Bloody Third ward " because of the violence and lawlessness in the area.
Fort Worth: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark; part of Fairmount-Southside Historic District 57: ... Fort Worth: Destroyed by fire on January 28, 1986. [9] 3:
The Fort Worth Gas Company was created in 1909 and began serving almost 4,000 customers via a 90 miles (140 km) pipeline from Petrolia, Texas. W.K. Gordon, superintendent of the Texas Pacific Coal Company, believed there was oil in the town of Ranger , 90 miles (140 km) away from Fort Worth.
Its crew arrived at the motel at 7:42 p.m. and began to treat a medical problem, a fire department spokesperson said. Nine minutes later, someone entered the motel lobby and told the firefighters ...
The Fort Worth Stockyards is a historic district that is located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, north of the central business district. A 98-acre (40 ha) portion encompassing much of the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District in 1976. [ 1 ]
The fire at Flamin’ Finishes Swimming Pool Coatings in the 2200 block of Cantrell Sansom Road was reported around 3 a.m., according to Star-Telegram media partner WFAA-TV. Heavy fire was coming ...
1904 saw the beginning of the tradition of Fort Worth Fire Department apparatus being painted white. That year, Station #5 had been selected to represent Fort Worth at the annual Texas State Pump race at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas. The members of Company #5 were unable to take their regular apparatus and instead had to use a reserve pumper.