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Now engulfed by West Bend, the modest former village of Barton retains survivors from its early frontier days. [3] Includes the 1850 gabled-ell Hays-Raif house, [ 4 ] the 1865 Barton Roller Mill , [ 5 ] the 1865 Frazer General Store, [ 6 ] the 1865 Greek Revival Frazer House, [ 7 ] the 1900 Gothic Revival St Mary's church, [ 8 ] the 1915 Barton ...
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Washington State Fire Training Academy seen from slopes of Mailbox Peak. The fire training academy is on a 51-acre (21 ha) campus that consists of four classrooms, a two-story dormitory with 20 rooms, and training areas. [30] The largest training area is a six-story "burn building" that is used for search and rescue training. [32]
1 Originally organized as "Volunteer Fire Company" on March 17, 1887 and later underwent a name change to "Delaware City Hose Company" on January 23, 1889. There was a disrupted period of inactivity where there was no organized fire company and the Delaware City Fire Company was reorganized on July 9, 1924, however, the company uses the initial date of organization for the previous company in ...
SOUTH BEND — In his 37 years with the South Bend Fire Department, Chief Carl Buchanon said Monday, the fire at 222 N. LaPorte Ave. on Sunday, Jan. 21 that killed five children was the deadliest ...
Fire department vehicles outside a fire station in Middleborough, Massachusetts, United States. A fire department (North American English) or fire brigade (Commonwealth English), also known as a fire company, fire authority, fire district, fire and rescue, or fire service in some areas, is an organization that provides fire prevention and fire suppression services as well as other rescue services.
The Long Bend Fire burning on the Deschutes River, roughly 4 miles southwest of Maupin, has brought "a precautionary evacuation" for two popular campgrounds. The fire, which blackened 108 acres by ...
Large fire departments, such as the New York City Fire Department and London Fire Brigade, have specialist teams for advanced technical rescue. As structure fires have been in decline for many years in developed countries such as the United States, rescues other than fires make up an increasing proportion of their firefighters' work.