The following pictorial contains photos that were scanned at high resolution and moderately enhanced to improve visibility. The originals were used in a collage depicting the 1909 Stamford Fire Department. That collage was used for numerous years in programs for the various even programs. The originals are nowhere to be [...]
Before and after Photoshop touch-up by Phil Hayes George Hyland joined the Stamford Fire Department at age 29 on August 1, 1888. He was promoted to Captain on November 25, 1910. He retired just nine years later on March 1, 1919. George died on May 14, 1931 while marching in [...]
This photo was taken in front of the Luther Street Fire House. Since the new Central Fire Station was not opened in July 1915, the evidence suggests this photo was taken circa 1910. According to Daniel Burke, who provide the original scan of the photo from the Stamford Historical Socirty [...]
On December 20, 1911, Fire & Water Engineering Magazine (now Fire Engineering) published an interesting article about the trials of Stamford's first motorized pumping engine, an American LaFrance. Lots of out of town guests participated in the trials. After witnessing an exhaustive demonstration of the powers of the new [...]
The following was published in the Stamford Advocate on March 24, 1913. $25,000 Fire Damage in Fessenden Block Blaze in Cellar Ruins Big Stocks of Merchandise on Easter Day BEEHLER'S LOSS, $12,000; H.NEWSTAD's, $6,000 JK Lawrence suffers $2500 loss; Royce and Judd, $200, and building damaged $3500 — tenants driven [...]
The article below was published in a March 1913 edition of The Advocate. It tells the sad story of how the Spot, the Luther Street Station Dalmatian was run over by an apparatus being backed into the fire station. There were two motorized apparatus purchased in the years just prior [...]
On Thursday, June 12, 1913, the second section of the Boston Express crashed into the first section near the Canal Street Bridge in Stamford. Six people lost their lives and another twenty were sent to the hospital with a wide range of injuries. The Stamford Fire Department was called to [...]
By now Retired Firefighter Joseph Lombardo IV If you were a brave Stamford resident that ventured out on the cold afternoon ofJanuary 14", 1914 for a copy of the Advocate your two cents would have bought a frontpage of report of the S.F.D.'s fire duty from the day before. In [...]
This picture is a high resolution scan of a mint condition colorized postcard from roughly 1914. It depicts the motorized apparatus of the Stamford Fire Department in front of the Luther Street Fire Station. With the first motorized Pope Hartford Chief's Car being bought in November of 1913 (shown as [...]
This is an interesting story that nobody in Stamford seems to know anything about. I asked some old timers about it and found nobody that was familiar with this story. The following article was published in the New York Press on January 26, 1916 Abandons Wall Street to "Save the Chee-ild" [...]
