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In 1919, Engine Company 11 was designated the department's all-Black unit. Later Fire Boat One was also an all-Black unit. The Department began to desegregate in February 1949. [5] The City Charter of 1951 abolished the Department of Public Safety and established the present Fire Department. [6]
Engine Company No. 11 was a fire-engine company in Philadelphia. Established in 1871, it was Philadelphia's only all-black segregated company from 1919, and was desegregated in 1952. [ 1 ] In 1871, Philadelphia established its professional fire department, creating 22 fire companies, replacing about 90 volunteer companies.
Dorrance Township Volunteer Fire Department (St. 124) Dupont Fire Department (St. 125) Germania Hose Company (St. 126) Excelsior Hose Company (St. 226) Edwardsville Fire Department (St. 127) Exeter Township Fire Department (St. 128) Harding Fire Department (St. 129) Mt. Zion Fire Department (St. 229) Fairmount Township Volunteer Fire Department ...
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Philadelphia obtained a hand-pumped fire engine in 1719, years after Lynn's 1654 model appeared there, made by Joseph Jencks, but before New York's two engines arrived from London. Knox fire engine, one of the first modern fire engines , manufactured in 1905 in Springfield, Massachusetts by the Knox Automobile Company
The new truck comes with a 750-gallon water tank and a 1,500-gallon-per minute pump, according to Fire Chief Jim Parrish. 'Community's fire engine' goes into service in New Philadelphia Skip to ...
U.S. War Department adopted a standard Quartermaster's Department fire hose coupling, that proved troublesome and was abandoned even while the standard was still in effect. (1917 proceedings of the NFPA) 1904 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch ID, 3 + 1 ⁄ 16-inch OD, 7.5 tpi 3, 6 tpi 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch 7.5 tpi 4 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch, 4 tpi
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