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  2. Cascade Locks Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Located immediately northwest of downtown Akron, the Cascade Locks Historic District is a ravine that opens up to a flat plane where the Ohio and Erie Canal empties into the Little Cuyahoga River. This area of the canal included the steepest grade of the entire 304 miles between Lake Erie to the Ohio River. The district was the site of many ...

  3. Glossary of firefighting equipment - Wikipedia

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    Short hook with a pointed tip is a pike pole; longer hook on a San Francisco hook; two offset hooks on either side of tip is a universal hook; long p-shaped hook is a Boston rake for pulling plaster and lath; short hook with claw on opposite side of tip is either a gypsum hook or the narrower ceiling hook; pike pole with a short handle is a ...

  4. Fire Museum of Greater Cincinnati - Wikipedia

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    The Fire Museum of Greater Cincinnati, also known as the Cincinnati Fire Museum, preserves and exhibits Greater Cincinnati, Ohio's firefighting artifacts and honors firefighters, both past and present. Over 200 years of firefighting history is on display in the Fire Museum of Greater Cincinnati. [2]

  5. Crosby Township, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    The lands in Crosby Township were opened later and more slowly than its southern neighbors. While good land remained for sale in the more accessible townships there was little incentive to move this far away from the Ohio River. Difficulties with local Indians contributed to this delay. Joab Comstock was the first settler.

  6. Hook ladder - Wikipedia

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    German firefighters using a modern hook ladder. A hook ladder, also known as a pompier ladder (from the French pompier meaning firefighter) is a type of ladder that can be attached to a window sill or similar ledge by the use of a hooked extending bill with serrations on the underside. The hooked ladder then hangs suspended vertically down the ...

  7. Pulaski (tool) - Wikipedia

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    Pulaski was famous for taking action to save the lives of a crew of 45 firefighters during the disastrous August 1910 wildfires in Idaho. His invention (or reinvention [ 4 ] ) of a combination axe and adze may have been a result of the disaster, as he saw the need for better firefighting tools.

  8. Category:Firefighting equipment - Wikipedia

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  9. Trash hook - Wikipedia

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    The Trash hook is a tool used by firefighters for a variety of functions. The tool's primary purpose is to sift through trash during the overhaul stage of a dumpster fire. Secondarily, it can be used for roof ventilation and prying operations. [1]