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The History of Firefighting
Books,
Photographs, and historic videos
51
Vintage Books,
200 +
Photographs, and
14
videos chronicling the history of firefighting!
A must have resource for anyone studying the firefighting!
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All books are
PDF
format that you know and trust, for easy reading and printing.
No
unknown or strange file formats!
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FORMAT NOTICE:
This disk is only for use in your computer's
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(SAMPLE PAGE VIEWS)
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A firefighter (historically fireman) is a
rescuer extensively trained in firefighting, primarily to extinguish
hazardous fires that threaten property and civilian or natural
populations, and to rescue people from dangerous situations, like
collapsed or burning buildings or crashed vehicles. In some areas, they
are also trained in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and operate
ambulances in addition to being a firefighter.
The complexity of modern industrialized life with a greater prominence
of hazards has created an increase in the skills needed in firefighting
technology and a broadening of the firefighter-rescuer's remit. The fire
service, or fire and rescue service, also known in some countries as the
fire brigade or fire department, is one of the three main emergency
services. Firefighting and firefighters have become ubiquitous around
the world, from wildlands to urban areas, and aboard ships. According to
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, the English word firefighter has been used
since 1903. In recent decades it has become the preferred term,
replacing fireman, since women also serve as firefighters, and also
because the term fireman can have other meanings, including someone who
sets, stokes, or tends fires, especially in designated fireplaces – the
opposite of the firefighting role.
This DVD-ROM includes
51 vintage books and
periodicals
detailing firefighting history along with a collection of
200 vintage photographs and
prints, along with 14 vintage
firefighting videos in .mpeg format.
Please note that this collection contains vintage scans, some
of which were in poor condition before being rescued and digitized for
posterity. This means that you may see some pages with creases
and tears that show up in the scans.
Publications
included:
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A Complete History of the Boston Fire
Department
1889, by Arthur Wellington Bradley, 752 pages |
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A History of the Fire Department of
Warren, Rhode Island
1912, by Virginia Baker, 148 pages |
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Better Fire Protection, the Safety Fire
Bucket Tank
1906, by The Safety Fire Extinguisher Company, 25
pages |
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Buffalo Best Built Underwriter Fire Pumps
1910, Buffalo Steam Company, 8 pages |
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Dayton-Dowd Centrifugal Fire Pumps
1921, 19 pages |
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Descriptive and Illustrated Price List of
Firemen Uniforms
1893, 84 pages |
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Fighting Fire for Twenty-six Years
1867, 220 pages |
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Fire and Explosion Risks
1904, by Von Schwartz, 451 pages |
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Fire Department Manual
1940, 134 pages |
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Fire Department Supplies
1884, 20 pages |
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Fire Fighting on Farms
1946, by USDA, 60 pages |
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Fire Hose, a Treatise on the Best Hose to
the Fire Service of the Country
1883, Samuel Eastman & Company, 34 pages |
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Fire Warden's Handbook
1916, 54 pages |
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Fire Warden's Handbook
1918, 55 pages |
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Firemen and Their Exploits
1899, by FM Holmes, 194 pages |
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Fires and Fire-Fighters, A History of
Modern Fire-fighting
1913, by John Kenlon, 525 pages |
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Forest Fires in Canada
1910, by HR Macmillan and GA Gutches, 43 pages |
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Forest Fires, Their Destructive Work,
Causes and Prevention
1895, by WW Ashe, 69 pages |
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General Instructions for Fire Drills
1919, by Joseph Quinn, 12 pages |
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Harris System Portable Fire Escapes
1900, Harries Safety Company, 4 pages |
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Hercules, the Story of an Old-fashioned
Fire Engine
1940, 78 pages |
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History of the Fire Department of the City
of New Bedford, Massachusetts
1890, by Leonard Ellis, 266 pages |
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History of the Great Fires in Chicago and
the West
1871, by Rev EJ Goodspeed, 725 pages |
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History of the Toronto Fire Department
1924, 201 pages |
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Holly's System of Water Supply and Fire
Protection
1875, Holly Manufacturing Company, 52 pages |
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Manual for the Fire Drill, Health Drill,
and First Aid
1917, 23 pages |
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Modern Fire Protection
1900, 52 pages |
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Municipal Supplies - Traffic Signals -
Police - Fire Equipment
1939, by WS Darley and Company, 73 pages |
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New York Fire Department
1891, 8 pages |
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Old Clinkers, a Story of the New York Fire
Department
1909, by Harvey O'Higgins, 307 pages |
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Old Saint Paul's, a Tale of the Plague and
the Fire
1841, by William Harrison Ainsworth, 349 pages |
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Our Firemen, Faithful to Duty, True to
Friendship
1891, 148 pages |
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Our Firemen, the History of the Pittsburgh
Fire Department
1889, by Charles T Dawson, 313 pages |
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Personal Experiences During the Chicago
Fire,
1871, by Frank Loesch, 36 pages |
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Reminiscences of Chicago During the Great
Fire
1915, by Mabel McIlvaine, 189 pages |
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San Francisco Fire Department Historical
Review,
1849-1967, 28 pages |
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Science in Fire-fighting
1920, by Luke Flanagan, 296 pages |
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Souvenir Book of the Great Chelsea Fire,
April 12, 1908, 36 pages |
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Souvenir of the Baltimore Fire, February
1904, 52 pages |
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Souvenir of the Vancouver Fire Department
1905, 103 pages |
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Souvenir Photo Views of the Big Fire,
Ottawa & Hull,
April 26th 1900, 16 pages |
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Standard Fire Hydrants of the Northwest
1922, 32 pages |
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Standard Spiral Slide Fire Escape
1924, 15 pages |
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The 30th Anniversary of the Veterans
Firemen's Association of San Francisco,
199 pages |
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The Boston Fire, November 9, 1872,
43 pages |
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The Great Fires in Chicago and the West
1871, 124 pages |
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The Little Red Box on the Corner
1925, 18 pages |
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The New York Fire Department
1898, 33 pages |
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The New York Fire Department
1911, 28 pages |
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The Story of the Great Fire in St. John,
N.B., June 20th, 1877,
by George Stewart, 36 pages |
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The Story of the Great Fire, Boston,
November 9-10, 1872,
by Carleton, 60 pages |
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