FIREFIGHTER HISTORY ,STORIES AND MEMORIES 179
FIREFIGHTER HISTORY ,STORIES AND MEMORIES 179
DID YOU KNOW
THAT WATCHMEN, DURING COLONIAL TIMES , IN SOME COMMUNITIES ,HUNG A RED LANTERN FROM THE TOWNS BELL TOWER TO SIGNAL A FIRE IN THE NORTHERN SECTION OF TOWN AND A GREEN LANTERN FOR A SOUTHERN SECTION.
DID YOU KNOW
ANOTHER NAME FOR THE "RATTLE WATCHMEN" WERE "PROWLERS"
THEY PATROLLED THE TOWN FROM SUNSET TILL DAWN.
THEN AROUND 1830, IN SOME TOWNS, HE STOOD WATCH IN THE CENTRAL BELL TOWER IN CITY HALL.
UPON A FIRE HE WOULD SOUND THE BELL ACCORDING TO THE DISTRICT IT WAS IN.
DID YOU KNOW
THAT UPON SEEING A FIRE THEY WOULD SIGNAL A FIRE BY THEIR
RATTLE ,
MUFFIN BELL,
SHOTS,
SHOUTING THROUGH THEIR TRUMPETS,
TRIANGLES,
HOOPS,
BELLS
OR WHATEVER THEIR TOWN USED AT THE TIME.
UPON HEARING THIS, OTHER CHURCH BELLS WOULD JOIN IN UNTIL THE WHOLE TOWN WAS ALERTED .
LATER ON, IN SOME TOWNS ,THEY SPLIT THE AREA INTO NUMBERED DISTRICTS AND RUNG THE BELL ACCORDING TO WHAT DISTRICT THE FIRE WAS IN.
DID YOU KNOW
THAT WHAT PREVENTED THE VOLUNTEERS FROM RESPONDING FASTER WAS THEY HAD TO TRAVEL FROM THEIR HOMES TO THE FIRE STATION .
TO GAIN THE EDGE, SOME STARTED TO RENT ROOMS ABOVE THE STATION, IN NEARBY STORES OR HOTELS.
DID YOU KNOW
THE FIRST GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS WERE BUSINESS MEN WHO JOINED OUT OF A SENSE OF DUTY.
BEING A VOLUNTEER WAS A STEPPING STONE INTO POLITICS.
SEVEN NEW YORK MAYORS,
EIGHTEEN ST. LOUIS MAYORS
AND
TWO PRESIDENTS STARTED THEIR CAREERS AS VOLUNTEER FIREMEN.
THE TWO PRESIDENTS WERE
JAMES BUCHANAN, UNION COMPANY ,LANCASTER PENNSYLVANIA
AND
MILLARD FILLMORE, OF BUFFALO'S EAGLE HOSE
ALSO,SOME OF THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE STARTED OUT AS VOLUNTEER FIREMEN,
JOHN HANDCOCK,
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,
JAMES WILSON,
DR. BENJAMIN RUSH,
GEORGE CLYMER,
FRANCIS HOPKINSON
AND ROBERT MORRIS
DID YOU KNOW
IN THE EARLY DAYS FIREMEN WHO SERVED TEN YEARS, WERE EXEMPT FROM JURY DUTY AND MILITARY SERVICE.
IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY, IT WAS AGAINST THE RULES TO SLEEP IN THE FIRE HOUSE AS THAT MIGHT LEAD TO DRINKING AND GAMBLING.
IN 1857 ,SOME VOLUNTEER DEPARTMENTS ARRAIGNED SLEEPING QUARTERS FOR THE VOLUNTEERS.
FIREFIGHTER
WAYNE
DID YOU KNOW
THAT WATCHMEN, DURING COLONIAL TIMES , IN SOME COMMUNITIES ,HUNG A RED LANTERN FROM THE TOWNS BELL TOWER TO SIGNAL A FIRE IN THE NORTHERN SECTION OF TOWN AND A GREEN LANTERN FOR A SOUTHERN SECTION.
DID YOU KNOW
ANOTHER NAME FOR THE "RATTLE WATCHMEN" WERE "PROWLERS"
THEY PATROLLED THE TOWN FROM SUNSET TILL DAWN.
THEN AROUND 1830, IN SOME TOWNS, HE STOOD WATCH IN THE CENTRAL BELL TOWER IN CITY HALL.
UPON A FIRE HE WOULD SOUND THE BELL ACCORDING TO THE DISTRICT IT WAS IN.
DID YOU KNOW
THAT UPON SEEING A FIRE THEY WOULD SIGNAL A FIRE BY THEIR
RATTLE ,
MUFFIN BELL,
SHOTS,
SHOUTING THROUGH THEIR TRUMPETS,
TRIANGLES,
HOOPS,
BELLS
OR WHATEVER THEIR TOWN USED AT THE TIME.
UPON HEARING THIS, OTHER CHURCH BELLS WOULD JOIN IN UNTIL THE WHOLE TOWN WAS ALERTED .
LATER ON, IN SOME TOWNS ,THEY SPLIT THE AREA INTO NUMBERED DISTRICTS AND RUNG THE BELL ACCORDING TO WHAT DISTRICT THE FIRE WAS IN.
DID YOU KNOW
THAT WHAT PREVENTED THE VOLUNTEERS FROM RESPONDING FASTER WAS THEY HAD TO TRAVEL FROM THEIR HOMES TO THE FIRE STATION .
TO GAIN THE EDGE, SOME STARTED TO RENT ROOMS ABOVE THE STATION, IN NEARBY STORES OR HOTELS.
DID YOU KNOW
THE FIRST GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS WERE BUSINESS MEN WHO JOINED OUT OF A SENSE OF DUTY.
BEING A VOLUNTEER WAS A STEPPING STONE INTO POLITICS.
SEVEN NEW YORK MAYORS,
EIGHTEEN ST. LOUIS MAYORS
AND
TWO PRESIDENTS STARTED THEIR CAREERS AS VOLUNTEER FIREMEN.
THE TWO PRESIDENTS WERE
JAMES BUCHANAN, UNION COMPANY ,LANCASTER PENNSYLVANIA
AND
MILLARD FILLMORE, OF BUFFALO'S EAGLE HOSE
ALSO,SOME OF THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE STARTED OUT AS VOLUNTEER FIREMEN,
JOHN HANDCOCK,
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,
JAMES WILSON,
DR. BENJAMIN RUSH,
GEORGE CLYMER,
FRANCIS HOPKINSON
AND ROBERT MORRIS
DID YOU KNOW
IN THE EARLY DAYS FIREMEN WHO SERVED TEN YEARS, WERE EXEMPT FROM JURY DUTY AND MILITARY SERVICE.
IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY, IT WAS AGAINST THE RULES TO SLEEP IN THE FIRE HOUSE AS THAT MIGHT LEAD TO DRINKING AND GAMBLING.
IN 1857 ,SOME VOLUNTEER DEPARTMENTS ARRAIGNED SLEEPING QUARTERS FOR THE VOLUNTEERS.
FIREFIGHTER
WAYNE
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