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The Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services Band is a community outreach program for the VFRS. Together, the Vancouver Police Pipe Band and the VFRS Band serve as the two official bands of the City of Vancouver. The VFRS Band was founded in 1927 and is the longest-serving fire department band in North America. The band is composed of active-duty and ...
Guardian served the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1951 until the time it was retired in 1987 by Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services under the name Fireboat #2. [ 2 ] Though the city of San Francisco had operated two fireboats from the early 1900 until 1954, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] the Phoenix was the only fireboat in the city from 1955 ...
The band's core purpose is to honor fallen firefighters and other public servants at memorials and other events. The band is regional in nature, with members from Vancouver FD, Clark Co. Fire District 6, Chehalis FD and Olympia FD. Membership is open to active duty and retired members of the region's fire and law enforcement agencies.
Retired Akron firefighter Larry Steele shows an early photo of himself during an interview at the Kenmore Community Center in March. Steele's first working fire as a rookie firefighter was a ...
The J. H. Carlisle was a fireboat that operated in Vancouver, British Columbia from 1928 through 1971. [1] It was named for Vancouver's longest serving fire chief, John Howe Carlisle. He was appointed Vancouver's fire chief in 1886, serving in the position for 42 years.
He had no living family. He was not famous. He lived alone. Yet on Tuesday, hundreds of people gathered at the graveside of World War II veteran Stephen Kolesnik Jr. and watched him laid to rest.
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Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services — The fire department for Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada This page was last edited on 29 January 2022, at 04:05 (UTC). ...