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An aerial view of BWI Marshall Airport with downtown Baltimore in the background in September 2009. Planning for a new airport on 3,200 acres (1,300 ha) to serve the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area began in 1944, just prior to the end of World War II, when the Baltimore Aviation Commission announced its decision that the best location to build a new airport would be on a 2,100-acre ...
Firefighters Association of the State of New York; Fort Lauderdale Fire and Safety Museum; H. ... National September 11 Memorial & Museum; New York City Fire Museum;
The Baltimore City Fire Department (BCFD) provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.Founded in 1797 and established in 1859, the Baltimore City Fire Department covers an area of 81 square miles (210 km 2) of land and 11 square miles (28 km 2) of water, with a resident population of over 640,000 and a daytime population of over ...
Canadian Firefighters Memorial, Ottawa, dedicated in 2012 [5]; The Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917 involved a blast and fires which killed more than 2,000 persons. One memorial work was the Halifax Explosion Memorial Sculpture which was located at the Halifax North Memorial Library, itself another memorial to the event.
Northeast Maglev (formally, The Northeast Maglev, LLC) is a private U.S. company proposing a maglev train system in the Northeastern United States. [2] The company aims to use the SCMaglev superconducting maglev system developed by the Central Japan Railway Company to provide 15-minute service between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., with an intermediate stop at BWI Airport, and ultimately ...
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Fire and Rescue Department serves as the primary responders for the fire, rescue, and EMS response for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport as well as portions of Virginia State Route 267 consisting of parts of the Dulles Toll Road and Dulles Airport Access Highway adjacent to the airport.
The Fire Museum of Maryland, founded in 1971, is located in Lutherville, Maryland near Baltimore, Maryland. With a collection of over forty pieces of firefighting apparatus, the Fire Museum of Maryland explains and interprets the history of the urban fire service in the U.S. for visitors and through school programming. The museum began as the ...
Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum: Downtown Baltimore: Sports: Life & times of Babe Ruth, Baltimore’s native son who became America’s first sports celebrity & an international icon, also the official Museum of the Baltimore Orioles and the archives of the Baltimore Colts and Johnny Unitas [1] Baltimore Clayworks: Mount Washington: Ceramics