Service History: Truck 4 9/21/1955: Arrived from factory at 4:24pm with company engineer Fred Haskins and R. Bartholemew sales representative. This truck officially #4 Truck.9/22/1955: #4 Maxim Aerial Ladder Truck after testing and breaking drivers went in commission at #4 Station […]
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An Illustrated History of Stamford’s Hand Drawn Fire Apparatus (Handtubs)
Handtub “a fire-fighting apparatus consisting of an often tub-shaped reservoir of water pumped out through a hose by means of a pump with brakes that are rocked up and down by a number of men on each side of the […]
1892 Fireman’s Entertainment & Ball Program
This is a PDF of an original program for the 1892 Firemans Entertainment and Ball. It was held on Thursday evening, January 28, 1892.
The 1895 Fireman’s Entertainment & Ball Program
This is a PDF of an original program for the 1895 Firemans Entertainment and Ball. It was held on Thursday evening, January 31. You should recognize some of the names on the committee page such as George Bowman (Fire Chief) […]
2011.01.04 – 79 Horton Street Basement Fire
It was a Tuesday at 5:40 pm when units were dispatched to a reported house fire. Engine #4 was the first unit on the scene and confirmed a working fire in the basement at 79 Horton St. Firefighters made an aggressive […]
Fire Chief George Bowman
b. 12 May 1852 in Fifeshire, Scotlandd. 14 September 1903 in New York StateServed as Fire Chief: 1887 – 1903 Chief George Bowman, the first Fire Chief of the Stamford Fire Department, served as Fire Chief for sixteen years. Chief […]
1892 01 27 – The Venetian Bloc Is Destroyed By Fire
On January 27, 1892, the Venetian Bloc, W. H. Taylor’s building on the corner of the Canal and Pacific Streets., was destroyed by fire. On February 6, 1893, there was another fire in the same building. We cannot find anything […]
1841.12.22 -Fire on River Street – The Earliest Newspaper Account of a Fire in Stamford
The following newspaper article was clipped from the digital version of the Stamford Advocate (Published as FARMER’S ADVOCATE.) on December 22, 1841, page 3. It is the earliest newspaper clipping we have related toa fire in Stamford. I am sure […]
1913.03.23 – Beehler Hat Store Fire
The following was publish 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 […]
1913.03 – Spot, The Luther Street Station Mascot Is Killed
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 […]