Keywords: Fire Departments
Item 98798
Fire Department Helmet, Waldoboro, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: circa 1950 Location: Waldoboro Media: metal
Item 100151
Third Waldoboro Fire Department patch, Waldoboro, 2012
Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: 2012 Location: Waldoboro Media: Cloth
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Waldoboro Fire Department's 175 Years
While the town of Waldoboro was chartered in 1773, it began organized fire protection in 1838 with a volunteer fire department and a hand pump fire engine, the Water Witch.
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Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers
Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.
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