{"id":281,"date":"2016-02-03T19:46:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T00:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2018-07-30T21:03:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T01:03:13","slug":"vintage-news-article-brevard-fire-department-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/vintage-news-article-brevard-fire-department-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage News Article &#8211; Brevard Fire Department, 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s another vintage news article, again via <a href=\"http:\/\/newspapers.digitalnc.org\/\">North Carolina Newspapers<\/a>. Date line September 1, 1950. Brevard Fire Department as featured in <em>The Echo<\/em>, as digitized by the Rowell Bosse North Carolina Room, Transylvania County Library.<\/p>\n<p>The two-page story includes a nice picture of their gorgeous 1945 American LaFrance 500 Series triple combination. They still have that baby. (They also had a 1925 ALF Type 75, and a combination hose\/chemical car of likely earlier vintage.)<\/p>\n<p>Love the \u201crain coat\u201d turnout coats as well. Notes the story, the department had twenty-one members, two new walkie talkies (!), and a new rescue boat and trailer. <a href=\"http:\/\/newspapers.digitalnc.org\/lccn\/2014236906\/1950-09-01\/ed-1\/\">Read the article<\/a>. Or search the newspaper sites for more <em>Echo <\/em>stories about BFD. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/newspapers.digitalnc.org\/lccn\/2014236906\/1950-09-01\/ed-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-282\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-282\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-02-03-bfd.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-02-03-bfd.jpg 600w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-02-03-bfd-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"on\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fvintage-news-article-brevard-fire-department-1950%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"281\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Vintage News Article - Brevard Fire Department, 1950\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fvintage-news-article-brevard-fire-department-1950%2F&text=Vintage+News+Article+%26%238211%3B+Brevard+Fire+Department%2C+1950\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"281\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Vintage News Article - Brevard Fire Department, 1950\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fvintage-news-article-brevard-fire-department-1950%2F&description=Vintage+News+Article+%26%238211%3B+Brevard+Fire+Department%2C+1950\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"281\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Vintage News Article - Brevard Fire Department, 1950\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-pinterest\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s another vintage news article, again via North Carolina Newspapers. 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