This is a blog version of an earlier Facebook posting. Mutual aid to Greensboro, April 1936. From a reader, after a tornado struck the Gate City on April 2, 1936, neighboring fire departments responding to render aid, including Asheboro, Burlington, Graham, High Point, Reidsville, and Winston-Salem. State Fire Marshal Sherwood Brockwell also responded, to help …
This is a blog version of an earlier Facebook posting. Found in my files. Twenty years ago last month, a burgeoning fire historian (and future blogger) was feeling his way around this thing called the Wake County Fire Commission.
This is a blog version of an earlier Facebook posting. New chart, high-level history of fire service governance in Wake County. Source are these lengthy research notes (PDF). See also this history chart of all Wake County fire departments.
This is a blog version of an earlier Facebook posting. We recently received and digitized a pair of program books from the Great American Firehouse Exposition and Muster South, held in Charlotte in May 1988 and May 1989. Both are fabulous snapshots of the late eighties fire service. They were gifted by a fellow history …