Question from reader Dave Parker, asking the age of this North Carolina Pump School booklet, that someone at his station received from a retired guy some time ago.

Answers Legeros, it likely dates from between 1953 and 1966. Those were the years that the North Carolina State Firemen’s Association conducted an annual pump school separate from their annual fire college and drill school.

The fire college was first held in 1929, and ended in 2002. Or maybe later. Legeros is still researching.

As for the pump school, these were those dates:

1953 – 1st – Charlotte 
1954 – 2nd – Charlotte 
1955 – 3rd – Charlotte 
1956 – 4th – Charlotte 
1957 – 5th – Charlotte 
1958 – 6th – Charlotte 
1959 – 7th – Charlotte 
1960 – 8th – Charlotte 
1961 – 9th – Charlotte 
1962 – 10th – Charlotte 
1963 – 11th – Charlotte 
1964 – 12th – Charlotte 
1965 – 13th – Greensboro 
1966 – 14th – Raleigh 
1967 – No more separate pump schools