{"id":3880,"date":"2018-10-17T07:38:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2018-10-17T09:43:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:43:35","slug":"remembering-the-state-fair-fire-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/remembering-the-state-fair-fire-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the State Fair Fire Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raleighfiremuseum.org\/\">Raleigh Fire Museum<\/a> has added more vintage photos of the State Fair Fire Brigade to their Flickr site.\u00a0See their photo album of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/raleighfiremuseum\/sets\/72157672371485167\">State Fair fire history<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From the 1960s to 2005, the brigade provided on-site fire protection (and fellowship) during the State Fair. Members were primarily off-duty Raleigh firefighters. They lived on site, and utilized apparatus loaned by vendors.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to longtime brigade member, retired Captain Paul Averette, for the pictures.\u00a0Read about their history, in <a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/ralwake\/wake\/history\/state-fair.shtml\">these notes of mine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-10-17-state-fair.jpg\" alt=\"2018-10-17-state-fair\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" border=\"1\" \/><\/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%2Fremembering-the-state-fair-fire-brigade%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"3880\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Remembering the State Fair Fire Brigade\" 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%2Fremembering-the-state-fair-fire-brigade%2F&text=Remembering+the+State+Fair+Fire+Brigade\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"3880\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Remembering the State Fair Fire Brigade\" 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%2Fremembering-the-state-fair-fire-brigade%2F&description=Remembering+the+State+Fair+Fire+Brigade\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"3880\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Remembering the State Fair Fire Brigade\" 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>The Raleigh Fire Museum has added more vintage photos of the State Fair Fire Brigade to their Flickr site.\u00a0See their photo album of State Fair fire history.\u00a0 From the 1960s to 2005, the brigade provided on-site fire protection (and fellowship) during the State Fair. 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