Volunteer Firemen's Hall and Museum of Kingston [NY]
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The former 1857 home of the Wiltwyck Hose Company features antique firefighting artifacts and apparatus including an 1898 streamer.
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Oregon Fire Service Museum
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Museum does not yet have a permanent display space; check back.
Manassas Volunteer Fire Company Museum [VA]
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Museum has been shut down, although website states it may be reopened in the future.
Museum on Fire [MO]
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Jefferson City Fire Museum [MO]
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Friendship Fire Company Museum [NJ]
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Derry Fire Museum [PA]
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Washington Fire Lookout Museum [WA]
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Homeville Antique Fire Department
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"The Homeville Antique Fire Department started in 1979 with the purchase of the 1927 Brockway truck and has grown over the years to what you see listed above. The apparatus are stored in a 48' x 60' steel building erected in 1994. All the apparatus except the '27 Brockway and the '35 Ward LaFrance are fully equipped and operational. Those two units are undergoing frame up restorations. I offer information, parts, manuals, and paint numbers and other technical assistance to anyone needing such American LaFrance related info. If I do not have it, I can more likely than not, get you in touch with some one who does."
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City causing the deaths of 148 garment workers—an event that came to be known as one of the hallmark tragedies of the industrial age. This website tells the story of the fire in six chapters: Introduction; Sweatshops and Strikes; Fire; Mourning and Protest; Relief Work; and Investigation, Trial, and Reform.
The text, targeted to a middle and high school audience, is accompanied by numerous primary sources that could be of use to more advanced researchers. These include close to 70 photographs, 18 newspaper articles, 17 testimonials, three oral histories, excerpts from investigative reports written in the years following the fire, several letters from witnesses, a lecture given by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins in 1964, and a radio drama reenacting the event. Accompanying these primary sources is a list of victims and witnesses, a selected bibliography of works surrounding the fire, and tips for writing a paper.