On Thursday, June 12, 1913, the second section of the Boston Express crashed into the first section near the Canal Street Bridge in Stamford. Six people lost their lives and another twenty were sent to the hospital with a wide range of injuries. The Stamford Fire Department was called to [...]
By now Retired Firefighter Joseph Lombardo IV If you were a brave Stamford resident that ventured out on the cold afternoon ofJanuary 14", 1914 for a copy of the Advocate your two cents would have bought a frontpage of report of the S.F.D.'s fire duty from the day before. In [...]
This picture is a high resolution scan of a mint condition colorized postcard from roughly 1914. It depicts the motorized apparatus of the Stamford Fire Department in front of the Luther Street Fire Station. With the first motorized Pope Hartford Chief's Car being bought in November of 1913 (shown as [...]
This is an interesting story that nobody in Stamford seems to know anything about. I asked some old timers about it and found nobody that was familiar with this story. The following article was published in the New York Press on January 26, 1916 Abandons Wall Street to "Save the Chee-ild" [...]
This is most likely the Memorial Day parade, but it could also be the parade to kick of the Elks Carnival. The view is of Main Street, heading towards the Central Station near Elm Street. Moyes Billiards and the Hotel Carlton can be seen on the left.
An explosion at the American Synthetic Color Company, caused by acids or some other chemical occurred at 5:30 in the evening on July 31, 1917. Firefighters from the Westside and Southend fire stations responded to the blaze at Sunnyside and Southfield Avenues. The alarm reportedly caused more than $50,000 in [...]
By now Retired Firefighter Joseph F. Lombardo I July 28, 1918, was a warm summer day in the City of Stamford and the weathermirrored the mood of the people. World War I was drawing to a close, the ImperialGerman Army was driven back in their last desperate gamble to seize [...]
An artists vision of the Stamford Mills Factory in Stamford, CT Source: Stamford History Center (edited by Captain Philip Hayes) At 7:00 in the evening of February 19th, 1919, a small fire started in the acid storage room of the huge Cove Mills, a complex of about 25 "fireproof" buildings [...]
With the end of World War I, just barely six months behind them, the organizers of Stamford's Memorial Day Parade wanted to show their appreciation to those who gave their lives for their country. So they invited every veteran to the parade and made it as big as possible. The [...]
Served as Fire Chief (1920 - 1954) Fire Chief Victor H. Veit, Chief of the department for 33 years, got his start in 1896, just around the corner from his job at Yale & Towne. "It was a little old barn," recalled the Chief. George Walton was Captain, and nobody [...]
