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1951: Equipment Inventory of the Stamford Fire Department
The image below shows the entire 1951 inventory of apparatus according to the Fairfield County Chief's Emergency Plan. [...]
1952-04-24: The First of Several Two-way Radios Was Installed
The first two-way General Elec. FM radio receiver and transmitter was installed in the Chiefs Car, a 1950 [...]
1954-09-03: Elevator Motor Fire at 1 Atlantic Street
Early in the day of September 3, 1954, Stamford Firefighters from the Central and Westside Fire Stations were [...]
1954-10-29: Lione – Mitchell Building at 209 Bedford Street Gutted in Early Morning Fire
An early morning fire gutted a two-story mercantile building at 209 Bedford Street. The fire at the Lione [...]
1955-08-05: Stamford First Black Firefighter Starts Career with Five Others
David Austin, Stamford's fire black firefighter and five others; Hugh Winters, Michael B Coppola, William J McCarthy, , [...]
1955-09-19: SFD Receives Maxim 750 GPM Pumper. Placed In Service as Engine #2
On September 19, 1955, at 3:00 pm, the Stamford Fire Department received their new 750 GPM Maxim. It [...]
1955-09-21: 85′ Maxim Aerial Ladder Arrives in Stamford and Placed Into Service as Truck #4
The 1955 85' Maxim Ladder Truck arrived from the factory at 4:24 pm with company engineer Fred Haskins [...]
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