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D59630-2
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- 1951-07 (Creation)
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This is the new $13,000 scarlet fire engine, trimmed with chrome, that was put into service at Fircrest in July of 1951. It had traveled up from California. On the way it put out two vehicle fires and came to the assistance of a bus. At the wheel is Fire Chief Oren W. Satterlee. Leo J. Ash, city councilman in charge of the fire department, is in the middle. Fircrest's Mayor Nelson J. Morrison is on the right. Children were invited to visit the fire station on July 12th for rides and fire chief hats. The new acquisition carried 500 gallons of water with a pumping capacity of 600 gallons per minute. It had 1,300 feet of hose. The old unit, a 1939 model, would be kept mainly for brush fires. Fircrest at the time had a population of 1600 and was undergoing a building boom. (TNT, 7/11/1951, p.8)
Fircrest Fire Department (Fircrest); Fire engines & equipment--Fircrest; Satterlee, Oren W.; Ash, Leo J.; Morrison, Nelson J.; Mayors--Fircrest--1950-1960;