Raleigh and Wake County Firefighting, Volume II

By Michael J. Legeros

ISBN 0738516201 - Arcadia Publishing - 2004
Softcover - 128 pages - 6.5 x 9.25 inches - 235 black-and-white photographs

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6
Introduction 7
1. Fire! 9
2. Equipment 37
3. Facilities 59
4. Personnel 77
5. Other Events 105
Appendix - Artifacts 119
 

Featured fire departments and fire protection agencies:
  • Apex
  • Apex Rural
  • Bay Leaf
  • Cary
  • Durham Highway
  • Fairgrounds
  • Fairview
  • Falls
  • Forestry Service
  • Fuquay-Varina
  • Fuquay-Varina Rural
  • Garner
  • Holly Springs
  • Hopkins
  • Knightdale
  • Morrisville
  • New Hope
  • Raleigh
  • Raleigh-Durham Airport
  • Rolesville
  • Six Forks
  • State Fair Fire Brigade
  • Stony Hill
  • Swift Creek
  • Wake Forest
  • Wake Forest #2
  • Wake Forest Rural
  • Wendell
  • Wendell Rural
  • Western Boulevard
  • Yrac
  • Zebulon
  • Zebulon Rural.

Six Forks Road
Fire Department, 1957


Park Hotel, 1967


District Chiefs, 1971