Keywords: Winter fire
Item 9361
1937 Chevrolet fire truck, Presque Isle, ca. 1959
Contributed by: Presque Isle Fire Department Date: circa 1959 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print
Item 16580
Main Street looking east, Winter Harbor, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Winter Harbor Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Winter Harbor Media: Postcard
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford
… Waldo Street Fire slide show The Waldo Street Fire was, and still is, Rumford’s most serious fire.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor
She wrote an article about the fire after her investigation into the fire. That article launched Mary's literary career.
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
