Author: Bridgeport Firefighters Historical Society
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738504926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Tracing its roots to 1796, the Bridgeport Fire Department protects Connecticut's largest city. Bridgeport's first step toward independence occured when the Corporation of Newfield was formed in 1797 for the express purpose of forming a fire company. Through the years, the firefighters have continued to play a significant role in Bridgeport's history. Bridgeport's fire department has grown, changed, and shared in its city's triumphs, and tragedies. The purchase of the steam-powered D.H. Sterling fire engine triggered an oftentimes bitter contest between adherents of the traditional muscle-powered fire engine and new mechanical machines. The contest resulted in the formation of the present career fire department in 1872. Bridgeport Firefighters traces the innovations, incidents, and personalities through the hand-drawn, horse-drawn, and motor-driven eras up to the twentieth century.
Author: Bridgeport Firefighters Historical Socie
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN: 9781531603083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Tracing its roots to 1796, the Bridgeport Fire Department protects Connecticut's largest city. Bridgeport's first step toward independence occured when the Corporation of Newfield was formed in 1797 for the express purpose of forming a fire company. Through the years, the firefighters have continued to play a significant role in Bridgeport's history. Bridgeport's fire department has grown, changed, and shared in its city's triumphs, and tragedies. The purchase of the steam-powered D.H. Sterling fire engine triggered an oftentimes bitter contest between adherents of the traditional muscle-powered fire engine and new mechanical machines. The contest resulted in the formation of the present career fire department in 1872. Bridgeport Firefighters traces the innovations, incidents, and personalities through the hand-drawn, horse-drawn, and motor-driven eras up to the twentieth century.
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
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Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Category : Collective labor agreements
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Author: National Fire Academy. Field Programs Division
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Category : Fire departments
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563117169
Category : Fire extinction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Author: Arthur L. Dale
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477132406
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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GROWING UP IN BRIDGEPORT IN THE ‘40S AND ‘50S is a collection of essays written by the author and published in The Bridgeport Leader over a two-year period, from 2002 to 2004. Drawn from the author’s memory, these essays describe the sights and sounds, adventures, drama, humor and tragedies of the author’s youth. With its informal and familiar tone, and its recurring references to local figures and locales, the author draws the reader into this world, making it more than just the memoirs of a single individual; instead the memoirs of a small Midwestern oil town.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Riots
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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