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08/27/15 126 W, 1 I - + 11 - 7 Vintage Forest Service Photos

From a reader (thanks Greg!), the Forest History Society (that happens to be located in Durham) maintains a photograph collection of over 30,000 items. They've digitized a portion of same, and searching "fire North Carolina" finds 201 matches. People, places, and things, from plows to planes to foresters. Here's a sampling, click to enlarge:
 

Courtesy Forest History Society

  
Left to right, top to bottom:

• Tractor with fire plow, not dated
• Fire truck trailer (!), not dated.
• Horse Ridge lookout tower, Burke County. Built 1928. Not dated.
• Fleet of forestry trucks, with lettering "Forest Service and Wayne County Cooperating." Circa 1936
• Firefighting at a ground fire at a Navy bomb range in Dare County, August 1957
• Fixed-wing aircraft at State Fair, October 1963

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