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1885-04-03: The Committee on the Fire Department Recommends a Partially Paid (Call) Fire Department for Stamford
On April 3, 19885, the Committee on the Fire Department published a recommendation in the Stamford Advocate for [...]
1885-05-15: Borough of Stamford Adopts Ordinances Establishing the “First” Stamford Fire Department
Just over a month after the Committee on the Fire Department published recommendations in the Stamford Advocate for [...]
1885-06: Ordinances Pertaining to the New Borough of Stamford Fire Department
The following ordinances were transcribed from a book containing the original Borough ordinances pertaining to the new Stamford [...]
1885-06: Rules & Regulations of the Fire Department
Membership. Persons to be eligible to membership in the department must be over twenty-one years of age, residents [...]
1885-06: The Very First Fire Districts and Bell Sequences for the New Stamford Fire Department (with a Map)
These bell sequences would ring at the Luther Street Fire Station and at the Stamford Town Hall letting [...]
1885-1915: The Horses of the Stamford Department
This article is dedicated to the numerous hard-working horses of the Stamford Fire Department. They deserve special recognition, [...]
1887-1903: Fire Chief George Bowman
b. 12 May 1852 in Fifeshire, Scotlandd. 14 September 1903 in New York StateServed as Fire Chief: 1887 [...]
1887: Picture of the Luther Street Fire Station and the Men of the SFD
On December 2, 2014, Deputy Chief Tim Conroy (now retired) presented me with a very old photograph of [...]
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