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Hose 5 Fire Museum

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Jonathan Fisher Memorial

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"… the Pejepscot Proprietors—were immediately alarmed by what they correctly saw as a threat to their land claims."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"At 2:00 AM a fire alarm was set off. The Bath Fire Company responded to the fire alarm and tried their hardest to extinguish the fire and save the…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"A bucket brigade was quickly formed to help stem the advancing flames. The town’s fire alarm brought the firemen, their teams of horses to haul the…"

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Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… watchtowers and once a whale was spotted, an alarm was sounded and twenty or so villagers would head out to get the whale."

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Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… and highways.” Town officials ordered “a general alarm blown on the fire whistle to call out all available men in town to help shovel the streets.”…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"… of putting the lead into the joint when the alarm went off and Hall started to see the columns of smoke coming over the city."

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Historic Hallowell - Police and Fire Citations

"member federal reserve system. Hallowell Fire Alarm     boxes. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Devlin, Douglas W. Police: The official Police Method Of Arrest and…"

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Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"A modern alarm system and vault safe were added to the Bank. A picketing demonstration was held in Town on September 20, 1934."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"When people heard the alarm in town, they would call her to ask where the fire was. Ella called elderly people every morning as a community service."

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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… then in 1868 a steam whistle, standard aural alarm of the era from factories to locomotives. Dual Steam WhistlesWest Quoddy Head Light Keepers…"

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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